--- title: On a winter night water seeps into a tiny crack, freezes, swells lik… — Roads and road signs · tree and pragmatics description: On a winter night water seeps into a tiny crack, freezes, swells like a bottle of water left in the freezer and pushes the crack wider; tyres then knock the broken bits out, and a pothole is born. Who acts: water, tyres. A sentence of the lesson «Roads and road signs» of the technology course of Mov --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/31-roads-and-road-signs/3/) [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/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/) / [Roads and road signs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/31-roads-and-road-signs/) / 3 # Roads and road signs, sentence 3 On a winter night water seeps into a tiny crack, freezes, swells like a bottle of water left in the freezer and pushes the crack wider; tyres then knock the broken bits out, and a pothole is born. **Who acts:** water, tyres · **What happens:** seep, freeze, swell, leave, push, knock out · **To what, where:** tiny crack, bottle, freezer, crack, broken bits, pothole This is a sentence of the lesson «Roads and road signs» 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, tyres), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:031-roads-and-road-signs.lesson:3 # text = On a winter night water seeps into a tiny crack, freezes, swells like a bottle of water left in the freezer and pushes the crack wider; tyres then knock the broken bits out, and a pothole is born. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 031-roads-and-road-signs.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 On on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 5 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 seeps seep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 into into ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 crack crack NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 freezes freeze VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 swells swell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 15 like like ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 bottle bottle NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 freezer freezer NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 crack crack NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 wider wide ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 xcomp _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 tyres tyre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 31 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 32 advmod _ _ 32 knock knock VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 amod _ _ 35 bits bit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 36 out out ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 pothole pothole NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj:pass _ _ 41 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seep** | present | water | | | a tiny crack | night | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into crack=Location | | 2 | **freeze** | present | water *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **swell** | present | water *not said here* | | | | | like a bottle of water | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **leave** | participle | | a bottle of water *not said here* | | | | in the freezer *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in freezer=Result | | 5 | **push** | present | water *not said here* | the crack | | | | wide *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crack=Theme | | 6 | **knock out** | present | tyres | the broken bits | | | then | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent bit=Patient | | 7 | **break** | participle | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **bear** | present · passive | | a pothole | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:technology:031-roads-and-road-signs.lesson:3`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Roads and road signs, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/31-roads-and-road-signs/2/) - next →: [Roads and road signs, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/31-roads-and-road-signs/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/31-roads-and-road-signs/)