--- title: Liquid expands when it freezes, so a can left in the freezer can bur… — Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at… · tree and pragmatics description: Liquid expands when it freezes, so a can left in the freezer can burst. Who acts: Liquid, can. A sentence of the lesson «Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Laundry machines, the freezer and elec…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity/) / 9 # Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home, sentence 9 Liquid expands when it freezes, so a can left in the freezer can burst. **Who acts:** Liquid, can · **What happens:** expand, freeze, leave, burst · **To what, where:** can, freezer This is a sentence of the lesson «Laundry machines, the freezer and electricity at home» of the everyday 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 (Liquid, can), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity.lesson:9 # text = Liquid expands when it freezes, so a can left in the freezer can burst. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity.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 Liquid liquid NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 expands expand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 freezes freeze VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 can can NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 10 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 acl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 freezer freezer NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 burst burst VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **expand** | present | Liquid | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **freeze** | present | Liquid | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **leave** | participle | | a can *not said here* | | | | in the freezer *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in freezer=Result | | 4 | **burst** | can | a can | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:everyday:108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity.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): 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/). - ← previous: [Laundry machines, the freezer and elec…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity/8/) - next →: [Laundry machines, the freezer and elec…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity/)