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title: Water expands when it freezes, which can split a pipe; when it thaws… — Heating, water pipes and drains · tree and pragmatics
description: Water expands when it freezes, which can split a pipe; when it thaws, water pours out, so pipes in lofts are wrapped in foam lagging. Who acts: Water. A sentence of the lesson «Heating, water pipes and drains» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Heating, water pipes and drains, sentence 17

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Water expands when it freezes, which can split a pipe; when it thaws, water pours out, so pipes in lofts are wrapped in foam lagging.

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**Who acts:** Water · **What happens:** expand, freeze, split, thaw, pour out, wrap · **To what, where:** pipe, pipes

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Heating, water pipes and drains» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:013-heating-water-pipes-and-drains.lesson:17
# text = Water expands when it freezes, which can split a pipe; when it thaws, water pours out, so pipes in lofts are wrapped in foam lagging.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 013-heating-water-pipes-and-drains.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Water	water	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	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
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	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	split	split	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	thaws	thaw	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	pours	pour	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	pipes	pipe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	lofts	loft	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	foam	foam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:obl
29	lagging	lag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
30	.	.	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 | Water |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **freeze** | present | water |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **split** | can |  | a pipe |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pipe=Patient |
| 4 | **thaw** | present | water |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **pour out** | present | water |  |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 6 | **wrap** | present · passive |  | pipes in lofts |  |  |  | foam lagging *obl* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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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**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:013-heating-water-pipes-and-drains.lesson:17`.

**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, R7-rel-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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