--- title: Water is strange: it grows bigger when it freezes, which is why ice… — Melting, freezing, boiling and condensing · tree and pragmatics description: Water is strange: it grows bigger when it freezes, which is why ice floats and a full bottle cracks in the freezer. Who acts: Water. 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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 (Water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chemistry:005-melting-freezing-boiling-condensing.lesson:4 # text = Water is strange: it grows bigger when it freezes, which is why ice floats and a full bottle cracks in the freezer. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chemistry # lesson = 005-melting-freezing-boiling-condensing.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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 7 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 xcomp _ _ 8 when when SCONJ WRB _ 10 mark _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 freezes freeze VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 14 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 15 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 floats float NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:det 19 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:amod 20 bottle bottle NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 cracks crack NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 freezer freezer NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **is** | present | Water | | | | | strange *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **grow** | present | Water | | | | | big *property* | 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 a** | present | | ice floats and bottle cracks | | | | | tree rules | 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:005-melting-freezing-boiling-condensing.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 ×3, 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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