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title: If someone goes through the ice: stay off it, call 999, tell them to… — Ice on ponds and cold water in winter · tree and pragmatics
description: If someone goes through the ice: stay off it, call 999, tell them to keep still, and reach or throw something from the bank. Who acts: someone, you. A sentence of the lesson «Ice on ponds and cold water in winter» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Ice on ponds and cold water in winter, sentence 10

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If someone goes through the ice: stay off it, call 999, tell them to keep still, and reach or throw something from the bank.

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**Who acts:** someone, you · **What happens:** go, stay, call, tell, keep, reach · **To what, where:** ice, 999, people, something, bank · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (someone, you), 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:10
# text = If someone goes through the ice: stay off it, call 999, tell them to keep still, and reach or throw something from the bank.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
3	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advcl
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	999	999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
15	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
19	still	still	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	reach	reach	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	throw	throw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
25	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	24	obj	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | someone |  |  | the ice |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through ice=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **stay** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | off ice | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | infinitive | you *not said here* | 999 |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent 999=Recipient |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | people |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | still |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **reach** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **throw** | infinitive | you *not said here* | something |  | the bank |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent something=Theme from bank=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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**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:074-ice-on-ponds-and-cold-water-in-winter.lesson:10`.

**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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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