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title: Ice on ponds and lakes can look solid but be too thin to hold a pers… — Sun, cold and growing up · tree and pragmatics
description: Ice on ponds and lakes can look solid but be too thin to hold a person. Who acts: Ice. A sentence of the lesson «Sun, cold and growing up» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sun, cold and growing up, sentence 21

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Ice on ponds and lakes can look solid but be too thin to hold a person.

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**Who acts:** Ice · **What happens:** look, be, hold · **To what, where:** person

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sun, cold and growing up» 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:086-sun-cold-and-growing-up.lesson:21
# text = Ice on ponds and lakes can look solid but be too thin to hold a person.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 086-sun-cold-and-growing-up.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	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	ponds	pond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	solid	solid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
11	too	too	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:xcomp
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | can | Ice on ponds and lakes |  |  |  |  | solid *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | Ice on ponds and lakes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | thin *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hold** | to-infinitive | Ice on ponds and lakes *not said here* | a person |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=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:086-sun-cold-and-growing-up.lesson:21`.

**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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