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title: Water gets bigger when it freezes, which is why a full glass bottle… — Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps · tree and pragmatics
description: Water gets bigger when it freezes, which is why a full glass bottle can crack in the freezer. Who acts: Water, full glass bottle. A sentence of the lesson «Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps, sentence 12

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Water gets bigger when it freezes, which is why a full glass bottle can crack in the freezer.

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**Who acts:** Water, full glass bottle · **What happens:** get, freeze, be, crack · **To what, where:** freezer

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Keeping cold: fridges, freezers and heat pumps» of the technology 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, full glass bottle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:010-keeping-cold-fridges-freezers-and-heat-pumps.lesson:12
# text = Water gets bigger when it freezes, which is why a full glass bottle can crack in the freezer.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 010-keeping-cold-fridges-freezers-and-heat-pumps.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	freezes	freeze	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	crack	crack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	freezer	freezer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	.	.	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 | **get** | present | Water |  |  |  |  | big *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **freeze** | present | Water |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **crack** | can | a full glass bottle |  |  | the freezer |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in freezer=Location |

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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:technology:010-keeping-cold-fridges-freezers-and-heat-pumps.lesson:12`.

**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): 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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