--- title: Ice on a pond may look solid but can be thin, especially near stream… — Pools, lakes and ice · tree and pragmatics description: Ice on a pond may look solid but can be thin, especially near streams, bridges and the edges; children go on ice only where an adult has checked it is thick enough, and in the UK and Ireland ice is almost never safe to walk on. Who acts: Ice, children, adult. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ice, children, adult), 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:3 # text = Ice on a pond may look solid but can be thin, especially near streams, bridges and the edges; children go on ice only where an adult has checked it is thick enough, and in the UK and Ireland ice is almost never safe to walk on. # 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 ×2 1 Ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 2 on on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 pond pond NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 solid solid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 cop _ _ 11 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 especially especially ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 near near ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 streams stream NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 appos _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 bridges bridge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 edges edge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 24 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 26 only only ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 27 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 31 advmod _ _ 28 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 checked check VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 ccomp _ _ 35 enough enough ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 obl _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 conj _ _ 43 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 44 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 cop _ _ 45 almost almost ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 46 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 47 advmod _ _ 47 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 conj _ _ 48 to to PART TO _ 49 mark _ _ 49 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 47 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=47:xcomp 50 on on ADV RB _ 49 compound:prt _ _ 51 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | may | Ice on a pond | | | | | solid *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **is** | can | Ice on a pond *not said here* | | | | | thin *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **go** | present | children | | | ice | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ice=Location | | 4 | **check** | present · perfect | a adult | | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | adult | | | | | enough, thick *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **is** | present | ice | | | the UK and Ireland | | safe *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **walk on** | to-infinitive | ice *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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:3`. **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 ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Pools, lakes and ice, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/45-pools-lakes-and-ice/2/) - next →: [Pools, lakes and ice, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/45-pools-lakes-and-ice/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/45-pools-lakes-and-ice/)