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title: Fresh water freezes at 0 degrees, and water grows as it turns to ice… — Melting, freezing and boiling · tree and pragmatics
description: Fresh water freezes at 0 degrees, and water grows as it turns to ice, which is why frozen pipes can burst. Who acts: Fresh water, water, ice. A sentence of the lesson «Melting, freezing and boiling» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Melting, freezing and boiling, sentence 10

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Fresh water freezes at 0 degrees, and water grows as it turns to ice, which is why frozen pipes can burst.

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**Who acts:** Fresh water, water, ice · **What happens:** freeze, grow, turn, be · **To what, where:** 0 degrees, ice

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Melting, freezing and boiling» 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 (Fresh water, water, ice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:024-melting-freezing-and-boiling.lesson:10
# text = Fresh water freezes at 0 degrees, and water grows as it turns to ice, which is why frozen pipes can burst.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 024-melting-freezing-and-boiling.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:amod
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	freezes	freeze	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	0	0	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
19	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
20	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
21	pipes	pipe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	burst	burst	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **freeze** | present | Fresh water |  |  | 0 degrees |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **grow** | present | water |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **turn** | present | Water |  |  | ice |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to ice=Trajectory |
| 4 | **freeze** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | can · present | ice |  |  |  |  | burst *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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:024-melting-freezing-and-boiling.lesson:10`.

**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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