Water safety and the ocean, sentence 4

Thick, very cold ice can carry a heavy lorry across a frozen lake in the far north, but ice on ponds at home can look solid and be far too thin, so never walk on it.

Who acts: Thick cold ice, ice · What happens: carry, freeze, look, be, not walk · To what, where: heavy lorry, frozen lake, ice

This is a sentence of the lesson «Water safety and the ocean» of the physics 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 (Thick cold ice, ice), 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	Thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ice	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Thick	punct
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 cold	advmod
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ice	amod
5	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carry	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 carry	aux
7	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lorry	det
9	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lorry	amod
10	lorry	lorry	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carry	obj
11	across	across	ADP	_	14 lake	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 lake	det
13	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 lake	amod
14	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carry	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 north	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 north	det
17	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 north	amod
18	north	north	ADV	_	14 lake	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 look	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 look	cc
21	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 look	nsubj
22	on	on	ADP	_	23 ponds	case
23	ponds	pond	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 ice	nmod
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 home	case
25	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ponds	nmod
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 look	aux
27	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 carry	conj
28	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 look	xcomp
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 thin	cc
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 thin	cop
31	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 thin	advmod
32	too	too	ADV	_	33 thin	advmod
33	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 solid	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 walk	punct
35	so	so	ADV	_	37 walk	advmod
36	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	37 walk	advmod
37	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	27 look	parataxis
38	on	on	ADP	_	39 it	case
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 walk	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 carry	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry	can	Thick cold ice	a heavy lorry	a frozen lake		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lorry=Theme
2	freeze	participle					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	look	can	ice on ponds at home			solid property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	is	infinitive	ice on ponds at home not said here			far, thin property	tree rules
5	not walk	infinitive			ice		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory

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:physics:013-water-safety-and-the-ocean.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): 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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