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title: Cold is a danger too: on a dreich, Baltic morning in Edinburgh (Scot… — Heat, sun and cold on sports day · tree and pragmatics
description: Cold is a danger too: on a dreich, Baltic morning in Edinburgh (Scots for grey and drizzly, and slang for freezing), cold muscles strain more easily, and a child who is shivering hard, pale and mumbling must be warmed slowly, never dumped in a hot bath. Who acts: Cold, cold muscles, child, danger. A
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# Heat, sun and cold on sports day, sentence 3

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Cold is a danger too: on a dreich, Baltic morning in Edinburgh (Scots for grey and drizzly, and slang for freezing), cold muscles strain more easily, and a child who is shivering hard, pale and mumbling must be warmed slowly, never dumped in a hot bath.

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**Who acts:** Cold, cold muscles, child, danger · **What happens:** be, strain, shiver, mumble, warm, not dump · **To what, where:** danger, child, hot bath

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Heat, sun and cold on sports day» 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 (Cold, cold muscles, child, danger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:050-heat-sun-and-cold-on-sports-day.lesson:3
# text = Cold is a danger too: on a dreich, Baltic morning in Edinburgh (Scots for grey and drizzly, and slang for freezing), cold muscles strain more easily, and a child who is shivering hard, pale and mumbling must be warmed slowly, never dumped in a hot bath.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 050-heat-sun-and-cold-on-sports-day.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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:amod
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dreich	dreich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
11	Baltic	baltic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Edinburgh	Edinburgh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Scots	Scot	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	drizzly	drizzly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	freezing	freezing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	strain	strain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
31	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	32	advmod	_	_
32	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
38	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	shivering	shiver	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	acl:relcl	_	_
40	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	39	advmod	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	conj	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	mumbling	mumble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	39	conj	_	_
45	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
46	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	aux:pass	_	_
47	warmed	warm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=51:conj
48	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
50	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	51	advmod	_	_
51	dumped	dump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
52	in	in	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=51:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Cold | a danger |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **strain** | present | cold muscles |  |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **shiver** | present · progressive | a child |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **mumble** *speech: other* | gerund | a child *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **warm** | must · passive |  | a child |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **not** **dump** | past | a danger |  |  | a hot bath |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in bath=Trajectory |

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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:050-heat-sun-and-cold-on-sports-day.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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×4, 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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