--- title: Ice on ponds can be thin in places, and falling through means cold s… — Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and ice skating · tree and pragmatics description: Ice on ponds can be thin in places, and falling through means cold shock; RoSPA advises never going onto frozen ponds or lakes, and if someone falls in, stay off the ice and call 999. Who acts: Ice, RoSPA, someone. 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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, RoSPA, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:044-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating.lesson:18 # text = Ice on ponds can be thin in places, and falling through means cold shock; RoSPA advises never going onto frozen ponds or lakes, and if someone falls in, stay off the ice and call 999. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 044-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating.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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 2 on on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 ponds pond NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 6 cop _ _ 6 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 falling fall VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 parataxis _ _ 12 through through ADP IN _ 13 mark _ _ 13 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 14 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 shock shock NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 RoSPA RoSPA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 advises advise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 19 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:ccomp 21 onto onto ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 frozen freeze VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 23 ponds pond NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 lakes lake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 if if SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 30 nsubj _ _ 30 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 31 in in ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 33 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 parataxis _ _ 34 off off ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 39 999 999 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 38 obj _ _ 40 . . 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 | **is** | can | Ice on ponds | | | places | | thin *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **fall through** | gerund | | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **mean** | present | | cold shock | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shock=Topic | | 4 | **advise** *speech: other* | present | RoSPA | | | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **not** **go** *not said to happen* | gerund | RoSPA *not said here* | | | frozen ponds or lakes | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme onto pond=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **freeze** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **fall in** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | someone | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **stay** | infinitive | | | | | | off the ice | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **call** | infinitive | | 999 | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent 999=Recipient | 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:medicine:044-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating.lesson:18`. **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 ×3, R8-pos-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. 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