--- title: Ice on ponds, lakes, rivers and canals can be thick in one spot and… — Ice on ponds and cold water in winter · tree and pragmatics description: Ice on ponds, lakes, rivers and canals can be thick in one spot and thin a few steps away, and you can't see how thick it is. Who acts: Ice, 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 pragmati --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Ice on ponds and cold water in winter, sentence 5 Ice on ponds, lakes, rivers and canals can be thick in one spot and thin a few steps away, and you can't see how thick it is. **Who acts:** Ice, you · **What happens:** be, not see · **To what, where:** one spot · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Ice, 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:5 # text = Ice on ponds, lakes, rivers and canals can be thick in one spot and thin a few steps away, and you can't see how thick it is. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 2 on on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 ponds pond NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 lakes lake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 canals canal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 10 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 cop _ _ 12 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 spot spot NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obl:unmarked 21 away away ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 28 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 29 advmod _ _ 29 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 ccomp _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:obj 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | can | Ice on ponds and lakes and rivers and canals | | | one spot | | thick *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | Ice on ponds and lakes and rivers and canals *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **see** | can | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is** | present | ice | | | | | thick *property* | 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:5`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [Ice on ponds and cold water in winter, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/74-ice-on-ponds-and-cold-water-in-winter/3/) - next →: [Ice on ponds and cold water in winter, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/74-ice-on-ponds-and-cold-water-in-winter/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/74-ice-on-ponds-and-cold-water-in-winter/)