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title: People drown going onto ice to rescue dogs, and dogs usually manage… — Ice on ponds and cold water in winter · tree and pragmatics
description: People drown going onto ice to rescue dogs, and dogs usually manage to get out by themselves. Who acts: People, dogs. 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 9

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People drown going onto ice to rescue dogs, and dogs usually manage to get out by themselves.

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**Who acts:** People, dogs · **What happens:** drown, go, rescue, manage, get out · **To what, where:** ice, dogs

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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 (People, dogs), 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:9
# text = People drown going onto ice to rescue dogs, and dogs usually manage to get out by themselves.
# 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	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drown	drown	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	xcomp	_	_
4	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	rescue	rescue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
8	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	manage	manage	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	out	out	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **drown** | present | People |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | gerund | People *not said here* |  |  | ice |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **rescue** | to-infinitive | People *not said here* | dogs |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme |
| 4 | **manage** | present | dogs |  |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **get out** | to-infinitive | dogs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by people; out *property* | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:9`.

**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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