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title: The deadliest moment is the rescue: people drown going onto ice afte… — Ice on ponds and cold water in winter · tree and pragmatics
description: The deadliest moment is the rescue: people drown going onto ice after a friend or a dog, and dogs usually scramble out by themselves, so you stay on the bank, call 999, shout to them to keep still, and reach with a long branch or throw something that floats, never stepping onto the ice. Who acts: de
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# Ice on ponds and cold water in winter, sentence 2

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The deadliest moment is the rescue: people drown going onto ice after a friend or a dog, and dogs usually scramble out by themselves, so you stay on the bank, call 999, shout to them to keep still, and reach with a long branch or throw something that floats, never stepping onto the ice.

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**Who acts:** deadliest moment, people, dogs, you · **What happens:** be, drown, go, scramble out, stay, call · **To what, where:** rescue, ice, bank, 999, people, something · **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 (deadliest moment, people, dogs, 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:2
# text = The deadliest moment is the rescue: people drown going onto ice after a friend or a dog, and dogs usually scramble out by themselves, so you stay on the bank, call 999, shout to them to keep still, and reach with a long branch or throw something that floats, never stepping onto 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	deadliest	deadly	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rescue	rescue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	drown	drown	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
10	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	_
11	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	after	after	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	scramble	scramble	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
36	999	999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	obj	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	shout	shout	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obl	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	advcl	_	_
43	still	still	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	conj	_	_
47	with	with	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
51	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	conj	_	_
53	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	52	obj	_	_
54	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	55	nsubj	_	_
55	floats	float	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	53	acl:relcl	_	_
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
57	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	58	advmod	_	_
58	stepping	step	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	46	advcl	_	_
59	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	_
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 deadliest moment | the rescue |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **drown** | present | people |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  | ice | after a friend or a dog |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme onto ice=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **scramble out** | present | dogs |  |  |  |  | by people; usually *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by themselves=Trajectory |
| 5 | **stay** | present | you |  |  | the bank |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bank=Location |
| 6 | **call** | infinitive | you *not said here* | 999 |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent 999=Recipient |
| 7 | **shout** *speech: express* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | people |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient |
| 8 | **keep** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | still |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **reach** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a long branch | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **throw** | infinitive | you *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme |
| 11 | **float** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 12 | **not** **step** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  | the ice |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto ice=Trajectory |

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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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