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title: why do ice cubes float in ur drink — Clever reasoning about water and matter · tree and pragmatics
description: why do ice cubes float in ur drink Test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 20 «Clever reasoning about water and matter» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 10 · ★★★ · Clever reasoning about water and matter

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why do ice cubes float in ur drink

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ice cubes · **What happens:** float · **To what, where:** drink

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This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 20 «Clever reasoning about water and matter» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/20-reasoning-water-and-matter/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:20-reasoning-water-and-matter:t10:1
# text = why do ice cubes float in ur drink
1	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	cubes	cube	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	float	float	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	ur	your	PRON	PRP$	Abbr=Yes|Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | present · do-support | ice cubes |  |  | ur's drink |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in drink=Trajectory |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Ice is lighter because it is cold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:20-reasoning-water-and-matter:t10:o1:1
# text = Ice is lighter because it is cold
1	Ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	lighter	light	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Ice |  |  |  |  | light *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Ice |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Ice is less dense than liquid water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:20-reasoning-water-and-matter:t10:o2:1
# text = Ice is less dense than liquid water
1	Ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	dense	dense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	liquid	liquid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Ice |  |  |  |  | than liquid water; dense, less *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Ice has air bubbles that make it a gas

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:20-reasoning-water-and-matter:t10:o3:1
# text = Ice has air bubbles that make it a gas
1	Ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Ice | air bubbles |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bubble=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | present | air bubbles | Ice |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary gas=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The drink pushes all solids to the top

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:20-reasoning-water-and-matter:t10:o4:1
# text = The drink pushes all solids to the top
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	solids	solid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push** | present | the drink | all solids |  | the top |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent solid=Theme to top=Trajectory |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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