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title: Ice that looks solid can be thin, especially near the edges, over mo… — Pools, lakes and ice · tree and pragmatics
description: Ice that looks solid can be thin, especially near the edges, over moving water and in spring. Who acts: Ice. A sentence of the lesson «Pools, lakes and ice» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Pools, lakes and ice, sentence 20

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Ice that looks solid can be thin, especially near the edges, over moving water and in spring.

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**Who acts:** Ice · **What happens:** look, be, move · **To what, where:** edges, water

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pools, lakes and ice» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:045-pools-lakes-and-ice.lesson:20
# text = Ice that looks solid can be thin, especially near the edges, over moving water and in spring.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 045-pools-lakes-and-ice.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	solid	solid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	near	near	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	edges	edge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	over	over	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | Ice |  |  |  |  | solid *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | can | Ice |  |  | the edges |  | thin *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **move** | gerund | Ice *not said here* | water |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent water=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:045-pools-lakes-and-ice.lesson:20`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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