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title: Under the ice the water is only about 4 °C, and in water that cold t… — Ice on ponds and cold water in winter · tree and pragmatics
description: Under the ice the water is only about 4 °C, and in water that cold the body gasps, then hands and legs stop working within minutes; people, children too, die on UK ice every winter, so the rule is simple: never go onto frozen ponds, lakes, rivers or canals. Who acts: water, hands, people, rule. A se
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# Ice on ponds and cold water in winter, sentence 1

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Under the ice the water is only about 4 °C, and in water that cold the body gasps, then hands and legs stop working within minutes; people, children too, die on UK ice every winter, so the rule is simple: never go onto frozen ponds, lakes, rivers or canals.

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**Who acts:** water, hands, people, rule · **What happens:** be, cold, gasp, stop, work, die · **To what, where:** 4, ice, body, UK ice, frozen ponds

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ice on ponds and cold water in winter» 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 (water, hands, people, rule), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:074-ice-on-ponds-and-cold-water-in-winter.lesson:1
# text = Under the ice the water is only about 4 °C, and in water that cold the body gasps, then hands and legs stop working within minutes; people, children too, die on UK ice every winter, so the rule is simple: never go onto frozen ponds, lakes, rivers or canals.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 074-ice-on-ponds-and-cold-water-in-winter.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): no change
1	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	parataxis	_	_
10	°	°	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	compound	_	_
11	C	c	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:unmarked	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	cold	cold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	gasps	gasp	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
23	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
26	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
27	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	xcomp	_	_
28	within	within	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	appos	_	_
34	too	too	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	parataxis	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	41	det	_	_
41	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl:unmarked	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
43	so	so	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
46	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
47	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
48	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	50	punct	_	_
49	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	50	advmod	_	_
50	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
51	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	frozen	frozen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	ponds	pond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obl	_	_
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
55	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	conj	_	_
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
57	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	conj	_	_
58	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
59	canals	canal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	conj	_	_
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	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 | **is a** | present | the water | 4 and water |  | the ice |  | ° C *nmod:unmarked*; about *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cold** | present | water | the body |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **gasp** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **stop** | present | hands and legs |  |  |  | then |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **work** | gerund | hands and legs *not said here* |  |  |  | minute |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **die** | present | people |  |  | UK ice | winter |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 7 | **is** | present | the rule |  |  |  |  | simple *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **not** **go** | infinitive |  |  |  | frozen ponds and lakes and rivers or canals |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme onto pond=Initial\_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): no change. **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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