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title: Skate at a rink: never step onto a frozen pond or lake. — Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and ice skating · tree and pragmatics
description: Skate at a rink: never step onto a frozen pond or lake. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and ice skating» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and ice skating, sentence 6

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Skate at a rink: never step onto a frozen pond or lake.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** skate, not step, freeze · **To what, where:** rink, frozen pond

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and ice skating» of the medicine 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 (you), 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:6
# text = Skate at a rink: never step onto a frozen pond or lake.
# 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Skate	skate	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rink	rink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	step	step	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj
8	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
11	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **skate** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | a rink |  |  | vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **step** | infinitive |  |  |  | a frozen pond or lake |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto pond=Trajectory |
| 3 | **freeze** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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:medicine:044-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating.lesson:6`.

**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, 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.

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

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