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title: If a friend falls through the ice, you do not go out to him: you cal… — Pools, lakes and ice · tree and pragmatics
description: If a friend falls through the ice, you do not go out to him: you call for help, then reach with a long branch or throw something that floats, while you stay on safe ground. Who acts: friend, you. A sentence of the lesson «Pools, lakes and ice» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its
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# Pools, lakes and ice, sentence 4

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If a friend falls through the ice, you do not go out to him: you call for help, then reach with a long branch or throw something that floats, while you stay on safe ground.

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**Who acts:** friend, you · **What happens:** fall, not go out, call, reach, throw, float · **To what, where:** ice, something, safe ground · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (friend, you), 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:4
# text = If a friend falls through the ice, you do not go out to him: you call for help, then reach with a long branch or throw something that floats, while you stay on safe ground.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
13	out	out	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
22	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
23	reach	reach	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
30	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	29	obj	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	floats	float	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23: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 | **fall** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a friend |  |  | the ice |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through ice=Location |
| 2 | **not** **go out** | present · do-support | you |  | Ice |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **call** | present | you |  |  |  |  | for help | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient |
| 4 | **reach** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | then | with a long branch | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **throw** | infinitive | you *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme |
| 6 | **float** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **stay** | present | you |  |  | safe ground |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Location |

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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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**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): R6-punct-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.

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