Pools, lakes and ice, sentence 5

A boy in Minnesota walked onto a frozen pond to fetch a ball; the ice cracked and he fell through into the freezing water, and firefighters pulled him out.

Who acts: boy, ice, firefighters · What happens: walk, freeze, fetch, crack, fall through, pull out · To what, where: frozen pond, ball, freezing water, Ice

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 (boy, ice, firefighters), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walked	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Minnesota	case
4	Minnesota	Minnesota	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	onto	onto	ADP	_	9 pond	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pond	det
8	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 pond	amod
9	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walked	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 fetch	mark
11	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 walked	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 ball	det
13	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fetch	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 cracked	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ice	det
16	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cracked	nsubj
17	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 walked	parataxis
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 fell	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 fell	nsubj
20	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 cracked	conj
21	through	through	ADV	_	20 fell	advmod
22	into	into	ADP	_	25 water	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 water	det
24	freezing	freezing	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 water	compound
25	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fell	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 pulled	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 pulled	cc
28	firefighters	firefighter	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 pulled	nsubj
29	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 cracked	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 pulled	obj
31	out	out	ADP	_	29 pulled	compound:prt
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 walked	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	past	a boy in Minnesota		a frozen pond		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto pond=Trajectory
2	freeze	participle					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	fetch	to-infinitive	a boy in Minnesota not said here	a ball			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme
4	crack	past	the ice				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fall through	past	Ice			into the freezing water result; through property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into water=Result
6	pull out	past	firefighters	Ice			tree rules

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: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): R5-strong ×1, 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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