--- title: Ice on ponds can look strong but break; never walk on frozen ponds o… — Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war… · tree and pragmatics description: Ice on ponds can look strong but break; never walk on frozen ponds or lakes. Who acts: Ice. A sentence of the lesson «Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war and what-ifs» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/8-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs/10/) [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/) / [Reflection](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/) / [Scary things in the world: news, stran…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/8-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs/) / 10 # Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war and what-ifs, sentence 10 Ice on ponds can look strong but break; never walk on frozen ponds or lakes. **Who acts:** Ice · **What happens:** look, break, not walk, freeze · **To what, where:** frozen ponds This is a sentence of the lesson «Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war and what-ifs» of the reflection 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:008-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs.lesson:10 # text = Ice on ponds can look strong but break; never walk on frozen ponds or lakes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 008-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 on on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 ponds pond NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 frozen freeze VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 14 ponds pond NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 lakes lake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | can | Ice on ponds | | | | | strong *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **break** | infinitive | Ice on ponds *not said here* | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **not** **walk** | infinitive | | | | frozen ponds or lakes | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pond=Trajectory | | 4 | **freeze** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:reflection:008-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs.lesson:10`. **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, R8-pos-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. 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