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title: The ice lid insulates the water below, which stays liquid, so fish a… — Clever reasoning about water and matter · tree and pragmatics
description: The ice lid insulates the water below, which stays liquid, so fish and frogs can survive the winter at the bottom. Who acts: ice lid, water, fish. A sentence of the lesson «Clever reasoning about water and matter» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Clever reasoning about water and matter, sentence 2

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The ice lid insulates the water below, which stays liquid, so fish and frogs can survive the winter at the bottom.

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**Who acts:** ice lid, water, fish · **What happens:** insulate, stay, survive · **To what, where:** water, bottom

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Clever reasoning about water and matter» of the world 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 (ice lid, water, fish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:020-reasoning-water-and-matter.lesson:2
# text = The ice lid insulates the water below, which stays liquid, so fish and frogs can survive the winter at the bottom.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 020-reasoning-water-and-matter.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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	insulates	insulate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	below	below	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	liquid	liquid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
14	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	survive	survive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **insulate** | present | the ice lid | the water |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Destination |
| 2 | **stay** | present | the water |  |  |  |  | liquid *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **survive** | can | fish and frogs |  |  | the bottom | winter |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bottom=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:world:020-reasoning-water-and-matter.lesson:2`.

**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): no change. **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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