Snow, ice and strong sun, sentence 25

Ice that looks solid can be thin in places, and falling into freezing water makes it hard to breathe and move within minutes.

Who acts: Ice, falling · What happens: look, be, fall, freeze, make, breathe · To what, where: places, freezing water, water

This is a sentence of the lesson «Snow, ice and strong sun» of the everyday 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, falling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thin	nsubj
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 looks	nsubj
3	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Ice	acl:relcl
4	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 looks	xcomp
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 thin	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 thin	cop
7	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 places	case
9	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 thin	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 makes	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 makes	cc
12	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 makes	csubj
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 water	case
14	freezing	freeze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 water	amod
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 falling	obl
16	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 thin	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 makes	expl
18	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 makes	xcomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 breathe	mark
20	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 hard	ccomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 move	cc
22	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 breathe	conj
23	within	within	ADP	_	24 minutes	case
24	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 move	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 thin	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	Ice				solid property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	can	Ice		places		thin property	tree rules
3	fall	gerund					into freezing water result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into water=Result
4	freeze	gerund						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	make	present	falling	water			hard property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
6	breathe	to-infinitive	falling not said here					vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	move	infinitive	falling not said here			minute		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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, 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:everyday:234-snow-ice-and-sun.lesson:25.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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