--- title: The advice of RoSPA (the Royal Society for the Prevention of Acciden… — Ice on ponds and cold water in winter · tree and pragmatics description: The advice of RoSPA (the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents) is never to go onto ice on ponds, lakes, rivers or canals, and people die every winter doing it. Who acts: advice, people. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (advice, people), 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:8 # text = The advice of RoSPA (the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents) is never to go onto ice on ponds, lakes, rivers or canals, and people die every winter doing it. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 advice advice NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 RoSPA RoSPA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 Royal Royal ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 Society Society PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Prevention prevention PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Accidents accident PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 14 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 16 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 19 onto onto ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 21 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 ponds pond NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 lakes lake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 canals canal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 die die VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 33 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 34 det _ _ 34 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl:unmarked _ _ 35 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 32 advcl _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | present | the advice of RoSPA | | | ice on ponds and lakes and rivers or canals | | go *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **die** | present | people | | | | winter | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **do** | gerund | people *not said here* | ice | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | 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:8`. **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): R8-pos-agree ×2. **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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/74-ice-on-ponds-and-cold-water-in-winter/7/) - next →: [Ice on ponds and cold water in winter, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/74-ice-on-ponds-and-cold-water-in-winter/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/74-ice-on-ponds-and-cold-water-in-winter/)