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title: Canals are often deeper than a child is tall, with steep sides and r… — Ice on ponds and cold water in winter · tree and pragmatics
description: Canals are often deeper than a child is tall, with steep sides and rubbish frozen in the ice. Who acts: Canals, child. 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 14

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Canals are often deeper than a child is tall, with steep sides and rubbish frozen in the ice.

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**Who acts:** Canals, child · **What happens:** be, freeze · **To what, where:** rubbish, ice

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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 (Canals, child), 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:14
# text = Canals are often deeper than a child is tall, with steep sides and rubbish frozen in the ice.
# 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	Canals	canal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	deeper	deep	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	steep	steep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Canals |  |  |  |  | with steep sides and rubbish; deep, often *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | a child |  |  |  |  | tall *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **freeze** | participle |  | rubbish *not said here* |  | the ice |  |  | 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:074-ice-on-ponds-and-cold-water-in-winter.lesson:14`.

**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.

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

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