--- title: Water is strange: it grows bigger when it freezes, so ice is lighter… — Floating in the real world: ice, submarines and… · tree and pragmatics description: Water is strange: it grows bigger when it freezes, so ice is lighter for its size than water and floats, which saves fish in frozen ponds. Who acts: Water, ice. A sentence of the lesson «Floating in the real world: ice, submarines and balloons» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/12-ice-submarines-and-balloons/1/) [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/) / [Physics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/) / [Floating in the real world: ice, subma…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/12-ice-submarines-and-balloons/) / 1 # Floating in the real world: ice, submarines and balloons, sentence 1 Water is strange: it grows bigger when it freezes, so ice is lighter for its size than water and floats, which saves fish in frozen ponds. **Who acts:** Water, ice · **What happens:** be, grow, freeze, float, save · **To what, where:** fish, frozen ponds This is a sentence of the lesson «Floating in the real world: ice, submarines and balloons» of the physics 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 (Water, ice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:012-ice-submarines-and-balloons.lesson:1 # text = Water is strange: it grows bigger when it freezes, so ice is lighter for its size than water and floats, which saves fish in frozen ponds. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 012-ice-submarines-and-balloons.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3 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 _ _ 7 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 xcomp _ _ 8 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 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 _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advcl 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 13 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 lighter light ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 advcl _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 than than ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 floats float VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 saves save VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 26 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 frozen freeze VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 29 ponds pond NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | 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** | present | ice | | | | | for Water's size; than water; light *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **float** | present | ice *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **save** | present | | fish | | frozen ponds | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme | | 7 | **freeze** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:physics:012-ice-submarines-and-balloons.lesson:1`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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: [Floating in the real world: ice, subma…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/12-ice-submarines-and-balloons/0/) - next →: [Floating in the real world: ice, subma…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/12-ice-submarines-and-balloons/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/12-ice-submarines-and-balloons/)