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title: If ice sank, ponds would freeze from the bottom up and fish could no… — Floating in the real world: ice, submarines and… · tree and pragmatics
description: If ice sank, ponds would freeze from the bottom up and fish could not survive the winter. Who acts: ice, ponds, fish. A sentence of the lesson «Floating in the real world: ice, submarines and balloons» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Floating in the real world: ice, submarines and balloons, sentence 5

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If ice sank, ponds would freeze from the bottom up and fish could not survive the winter.

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**Who acts:** ice, ponds, fish · **What happens:** sink, freeze, not survive · **To what, where:** bottom

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Floating in the real world: ice, submarines and balloons» of the physics 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, ponds, fish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:012-ice-submarines-and-balloons.lesson:5
# text = If ice sank, ponds would freeze from the bottom up and fish could not survive the winter.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 012-ice-submarines-and-balloons.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	ponds	pond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	freeze	freeze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	up	up	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	survive	survive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | ice |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **freeze** | would | ponds |  |  | the bottom |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **survive** | could | fish |  |  |  | winter |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:physics:012-ice-submarines-and-balloons.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): 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/).

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