Ice on ponds and cold water in winter, sentence 1

Under the ice the water is only about 4 °C, and in water that cold the body gasps, then hands and legs stop working within minutes; people, children too, die on UK ice every winter, so the rule is simple: never go onto frozen ponds, lakes, rivers or canals.

Who acts: water, hands, people, rule · What happens: be, cold, gasp, stop, work, die · To what, where: 4, ice, body, UK ice, frozen ponds

This is a sentence of the lesson «Ice on ponds and cold water in winter» of the medicine 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 (water, hands, people, rule), 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	Under	under	ADP	_	3 ice	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ice	det
3	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 4	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 water	det
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 4	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 4	cop
7	only	only	ADV	_	9 4	advmod
8	about	about	ADV	_	9 4	advmod
9	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 gasps	parataxis
10	°	°	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 C	compound
11	C	c	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 4	nmod:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 water	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 water	cc
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 water	case
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 4	conj
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 cold	nsubj
17	cold	cold	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 water	acl:relcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 body	det
19	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cold	obj
20	gasps	gasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 stop	punct
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 stop	advmod
23	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 stop	nsubj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 legs	cc
25	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 hands	conj
26	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 gasps	parataxis
27	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 stop	xcomp
28	within	within	ADP	_	29 minutes	case
29	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 working	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 people	punct
31	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 die	nsubj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 children	punct
33	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 people	appos
34	too	too	ADV	_	31 people	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 die	punct
36	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 stop	parataxis
37	on	on	ADP	_	39 ice	case
38	UK	UK	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 ice	compound
39	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 die	obl
40	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	41 winter	det
41	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 die	obl:unmarked
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 simple	punct
43	so	so	ADV	_	47 simple	advmod
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 rule	det
45	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 simple	nsubj
46	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 simple	cop
47	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 gasps	conj
48	:	:	PUNCT	_	50 go	punct
49	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	50 go	advmod
50	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 gasps	conj
51	onto	onto	ADP	_	53 ponds	case
52	frozen	frozen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 ponds	amod
53	ponds	pond	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 go	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 lakes	punct
55	lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 ponds	conj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 rivers	punct
57	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 ponds	conj
58	or	or	CCONJ	_	59 canals	cc
59	canals	canal	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 ponds	conj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 gasps	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the water	4 and water	the ice		° C nmod:unmarked; about property	tree rules
2	cold	present	water	the body				tree rules
3	gasp	present						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	stop	present	hands and legs			then		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
5	work	gerund	hands and legs not said here			minute		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	die	present	people		UK ice	winter		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
7	is	present	the rule				simple property	tree rules
8	not go	infinitive			frozen ponds and lakes and rivers or canals			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme onto pond=Initial_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:medicine:074-ice-on-ponds-and-cold-water-in-winter.lesson:1.

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): no change. 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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