Ice on ponds and cold water in winter, sentence 16
Sledges are hard to stop on packed snow and ice, so a slope that runs out onto water or a road is a trap.
Who acts: Sledges, slope · What happens: be, stop, run out · To what, where: packed snow, water, trap
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 (Sledges, slope), 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 | Sledges | sledge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hard | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hard | cop |
| 3 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 stop | mark |
| 5 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hard | xcomp |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 snow | case |
| 7 | packed | packed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 snow | amod |
| 8 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stop | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ice | cc |
| 10 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 snow | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 slope | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 slope | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 slope | det |
| 14 | slope | slope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hard | conj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 runs | nsubj |
| 16 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 slope | acl:relcl |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 runs | compound:prt |
| 18 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 19 water | case |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 runs | obl |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 road | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 road | det |
| 22 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 water | conj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 trap | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 trap | det |
| 25 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 runs | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hard | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Sledges | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stop | to-infinitive | Sledges not said here | packed snow and ice | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | run out | present | a slope | water or a road | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto water=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | a slope not said here | a trap | 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:medicine:074-ice-on-ponds-and-cold-water-in-winter.lesson:16.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-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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