--- title: Sledges are hard to stop on packed snow and ice, so a slope that run… — Ice on ponds and cold water in winter · tree and pragmatics description: Sledges are hard to stop on packed snow and ice, so a slope that runs out onto water or a road is a trap. Who acts: Sledges, slope. 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 cl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/74-ice-on-ponds-and-cold-water-in-winter/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / [Ice on ponds and cold water in winter](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/74-ice-on-ponds-and-cold-water-in-winter/) / 16 # Ice on ponds and cold water in winter, sentence 16 Sledges are hard to stop on packed snow and ice, so a slope that runs out onto water or a road is a trap. **Who acts:** Sledges, slope · **What happens:** be, stop, run out · **To what, where:** packed snow, water, trap 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 (Sledges, slope), 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:16 # text = Sledges are hard to stop on packed snow and ice, so a slope that runs out onto water or a road is a trap. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Sledges sledge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 packed packed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 slope slope NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 out out ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 18 onto onto ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=19:cc 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 trap trap NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Sledges | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **stop** | to-infinitive | Sledges *not said here* | | | packed snow and ice | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **run out** | present | a slope | | | water or a road | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto water=Trajectory | | 4 | **is a** | present | a slope *not said here* | a trap | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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:16`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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. 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