--- title: Thick, very cold ice can carry a heavy lorry across a frozen lake in… — Water safety and the ocean · tree and pragmatics description: Thick, very cold ice can carry a heavy lorry across a frozen lake in the far north, but ice on ponds at home can look solid and be far too thin, so never walk on it. Who acts: Thick cold ice, ice. 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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 (Thick cold ice, ice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:013-water-safety-and-the-ocean.lesson:4 # text = Thick, very cold ice can carry a heavy lorry across a frozen lake in the far north, but ice on ponds at home can look solid and be far too thin, so never walk on it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 013-water-safety-and-the-ocean.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 Thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 very very ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 lorry lorry NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 across across ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 frozen freeze VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 amod _ _ 14 lake lake NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 15 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 far far ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 18 north north ADV RB _ 14 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 21 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 ponds pond NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 28 solid solid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 cop _ _ 31 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 33 advmod _ _ 32 too too ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 conj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 so so ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 36 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 37 walk walk VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 27 parataxis _ _ 38 on on ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry** | can | Thick cold ice | a heavy lorry | | a frozen lake | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lorry=Theme | | 2 | **freeze** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **look** | can | ice on ponds at home | | | | | solid *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **is** | infinitive | ice on ponds at home *not said here* | | | | | far, thin *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **walk** | infinitive | | | | ice | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory | 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:physics:013-water-safety-and-the-ocean.lesson:4`. **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: [Water safety and the ocean, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/13-water-safety-and-the-ocean/3/) - next →: [Water safety and the ocean, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/13-water-safety-and-the-ocean/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/13-water-safety-and-the-ocean/)