The air we breathe, sentence 10
Air presses on us from all sides, and the air and liquids inside our bodies press back out, so we do not feel its weight.
Who acts: Air, we · What happens: press, not feel · To what, where: sides, weight
This is a sentence of the lesson «The air we breathe» of the chemistry 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 (Air, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 presses | nsubj |
| 2 | presses | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 us | case |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 presses | obl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 sides | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 sides | det |
| 7 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 presses | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 press | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 air | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 air | det |
| 11 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 press | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 liquids | cc |
| 13 | liquids | liquid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 air | conj |
| 14 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 16 bodies | case |
| 15 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 bodies | nmod:poss |
| 16 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 air | nmod |
| 17 | press | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 presses | conj |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 out | advmod |
| 19 | out | out | ADV | _ | 17 press | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 feel | punct |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 feel | advmod |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 feel | nsubj |
| 23 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 feel | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 feel | advmod |
| 25 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 press | conj |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 weight | nmod:poss |
| 27 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 feel | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 presses | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | press | present | Air | all sides | on us | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on we=Theme | |||
| 2 | press | present | the air inside our bodies and liquids | out property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not feel | present · do-support | we | air's weight | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=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, 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:chemistry:033-the-air-we-breathe.lesson:10.
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): R6-punct-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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/33-the-air-we-breathe/10/