--- title: An ice cube floating in a glass filled to the brim does not make it… — Olympiad: forces, floating and machines ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: An ice cube floating in a glass filled to the brim does not make it overflow as it melts: the melted water just fills the space the ice was taking up under the surface. Who acts: ice cube, brim, cube, melted 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 (ice cube, brim, cube, melted water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:042-olympiad-forces-floating-and-machines.lesson:13 # text = An ice cube floating in a glass filled to the brim does not make it overflow as it melts: the melted water just fills the space the ice was taking up under the surface. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 042-olympiad-forces-floating-and-machines.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 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 cube cube NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 4 floating float VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 filled fill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 brim brim NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 overflow overflow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 as as SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 melts melt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 20 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 melted melt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 amod _ _ 23 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 just just ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 fills fill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 acl:relcl _ _ 32 up up ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 under under ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 surface surface NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 14 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 | **float** | gerund | a ice cube *not said here* | | | a glass | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in glass=Trajectory | | 2 | **fill** | participle | | a glass *not said here* | | | | to the brim | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | a ice cube | brim | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **overflow** | infinitive | brim *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **melt** | present | cube | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **melt** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **fill** | present | the melted water | the space | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent space=Patient | | 8 | **take up** | past · progressive | the ice | the space *not said here* | | the surface | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=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. 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