Pools, lakes and ice, sentence 4
If a friend falls through the ice, you do not go out to him: you call for help, then reach with a long branch or throw something that floats, while you stay on safe ground.
Who acts: friend, you · What happens: fall, not go out, call, reach, throw, float · To what, where: ice, something, safe ground · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Pools, lakes and ice» 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 (friend, you), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 falls | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 friend | det |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 falls | nsubj |
| 4 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | advcl |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 ice | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ice | det |
| 7 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 falls | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 go | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 go | advmod |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 reach | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 go | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 go | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 call | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 call | nsubj |
| 18 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | parataxis |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 help | case |
| 20 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 call | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 reach | punct |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 reach | advmod |
| 23 | reach | reach | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 branch | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 branch | det |
| 26 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 branch | amod |
| 27 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 reach | obl |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 throw | cc |
| 29 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 reach | conj |
| 30 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 29 throw | obj |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 floats | nsubj |
| 32 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 something | acl:relcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 stay | punct |
| 34 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 36 stay | mark |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 stay | nsubj |
| 36 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 reach | conj |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 ground | case |
| 38 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 ground | amod |
| 39 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 stay | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall a condition, not said to happen | present | a friend | the ice | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through ice=Location | ||||
| 2 | not go out | present · do-support | you | Ice | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | call | present | you | for help | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | reach | imperative | you not said here | then | with a long branch | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | throw | infinitive | you not said here | something | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | ||||
| 6 | float | present | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | stay | present | you | safe ground | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Location |
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:045-pools-lakes-and-ice.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): R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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