Ice on ponds and cold water in winter, sentence 5

Ice on ponds, lakes, rivers and canals can be thick in one spot and thin a few steps away, and you can't see how thick it is.

Who acts: Ice, you · What happens: be, not see · To what, where: one spot · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Ice, 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	Ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thick	nsubj
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 ponds	case
3	ponds	pond	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ice	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lakes	punct
5	lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ponds	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rivers	punct
7	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ponds	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 canals	cc
9	canals	canal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ponds	conj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 thick	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 thick	cop
12	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 spot	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 spot	nummod
15	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thick	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 thin	cc
17	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 thick	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 steps	det
19	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 steps	amod
20	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 away	obl:unmarked
21	away	away	ADV	_	17 thin	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 see	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 see	cc
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 see	nsubj
25	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 see	aux
26	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 see	advmod
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 thick	conj
28	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	29 thick	advmod
29	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 see	ccomp
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 thick	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 thick	cop
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 thick	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	can	Ice on ponds and lakes and rivers and canals	one spot	thick property	tree rules
2	be		Ice on ponds and lakes and rivers and canals not said here		away property	tree rules
3	not see	can	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	present	ice		thick property	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: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. 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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