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title: Liquid expands when it freezes, so a can or glass bottle left in the… — Safe in the kitchen, near the freezer, with plug… · tree and pragmatics
description: Liquid expands when it freezes, so a can or glass bottle left in the freezer can burst. Who acts: Liquid, can. A sentence of the lesson «Safe in the kitchen, near the freezer, with plugs and on balconies» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Safe in the kitchen, near the freezer, with plugs and on balconies, sentence 18

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Liquid expands when it freezes, so a can or glass bottle left in the freezer can burst.

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**Who acts:** Liquid, can · **What happens:** expand, freeze, leave, burst · **To what, where:** glass bottle, freezer

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Safe in the kitchen, near the freezer, with plugs and on balconies» 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:294-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-balconies.lesson:18
# text = Liquid expands when it freezes, so a can or glass bottle left in the freezer can burst.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 294-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-balconies.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
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	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
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	_	18	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	can	can	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:compound
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
12	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
13	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	freezer	freezer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	burst	burst	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **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 glass bottle *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 | can |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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): R5-strong ×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/).

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