--- title: Ice floats because water spreads out when it freezes, so ice is ligh… — Water: the most amazing liquid · tree and pragmatics description: Ice floats because water spreads out when it freezes, so ice is lighter than the same amount of liquid water; most solids sink in their own liquid. Who acts: Ice, floats, Water, most solids. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ice, floats, Water, most solids), 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:9 # text = Ice floats because water spreads out when it freezes, so ice is lighter than the same amount of liquid water; most solids sink in their own liquid. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:compound 2 floats float NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 because because SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 spreads spread VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 out out ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 freezes freeze VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 12 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 lighter light ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 9 advcl _ _ 15 than than ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 amount amount NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 liquid liquid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 23 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 24 amod _ _ 24 solids solid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 sink sink VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 liquid liquid NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **float** | | Ice | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **spread out** | present | floats | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **freeze** | present | Water | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **is** | present | ice | | | | | than the same amount of liquid water; light *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **sink** | present | most solids | | | solids's own liquid | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **amount** | | | liquid water | | | | | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:chemistry:034-water-amazing-liquid.lesson:9`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Water: the most amazing liquid, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/34-water-amazing-liquid/8/) - next →: [Water: the most amazing liquid, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/34-water-amazing-liquid/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/34-water-amazing-liquid/)