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title: Most solids sink in their own liquid, but ice floats in your drink. — Water: the most amazing liquid · tree and pragmatics
description: Most solids sink in their own liquid, but ice floats in your drink. Who acts: Most solids, ice. A sentence of the lesson «Water: the most amazing liquid» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Water: the most amazing liquid, sentence 3

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Most solids sink in their own liquid, but ice floats in your drink.

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**Who acts:** Most solids, ice · **What happens:** sink, float · **To what, where:** own liquid, drink

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Water: the most amazing liquid» of the chemistry 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 (Most solids, ice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:034-water-amazing-liquid.lesson:3
# text = Most solids sink in their own liquid, but ice floats in your drink.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 034-water-amazing-liquid.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	solids	solid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sink	sink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	liquid	liquid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	floats	float	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink** | present | Most solids |  |  | solids's own liquid |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **float** | present | ice |  |  | your 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.

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**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): no change. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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