Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war and what-ifs, sentence 10
Ice on ponds can look strong but break; never walk on frozen ponds or lakes.
Who acts: Ice · What happens: look, break, not walk, freeze · To what, where: frozen ponds
This is a sentence of the lesson «Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war and what-ifs» of the reflection 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), 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 | 5 look | nsubj |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 ponds | case |
| 3 | ponds | pond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Ice | nmod |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 look | aux |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 look | xcomp |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 break | cc |
| 8 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 look | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 walk | punct |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 walk | advmod |
| 11 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 look | parataxis |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 ponds | case |
| 13 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 ponds | amod |
| 14 | ponds | pond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 walk | obl |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 lakes | cc |
| 16 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ponds | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 look | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | can | Ice on ponds | strong property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | break | infinitive | Ice on ponds not said here | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | not walk | infinitive | frozen ponds or lakes | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pond=Trajectory | |||||
| 4 | freeze | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:reflection:008-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs.lesson:10.
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): 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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