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title: In cold water the hands and legs stop working within minutes, howeve… — Ice on ponds and cold water in winter · tree and pragmatics
description: In cold water the hands and legs stop working within minutes, however tough you are. Who acts: hands, 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ice on ponds and cold water in winter, sentence 12

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In cold water the hands and legs stop working within minutes, however tough you are.

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**Who acts:** hands, you · **What happens:** stop, work, be · **To what, where:** cold water

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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 (hands, 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:12
# text = In cold water the hands and legs stop working within minutes, however tough you are.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
10	within	within	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	however	however	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	tough	tough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:advcl
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **stop** | present | the hands and legs |  |  | cold water |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **work** | gerund | the hands and legs *not said here* |  |  |  | minute |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | however, tough *property* | tree rules |

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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:12`.

**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. **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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