Solids, liquids and gases, sentence 8
Squashed air pushes back hard, which is how bike tyres and footballs work.
Who acts: Squashed air · What happens: squash back, push, be
This is a sentence of the lesson «Solids, liquids and gases» 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 (Squashed air), 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 | Squashed | squash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 air | amod |
| 2 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pushes | nsubj |
| 3 | pushes | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Squashed | advmod |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 pushes | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 work | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 work | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 work | cop |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 work | advmod |
| 10 | bike | bike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tyres | compound |
| 11 | tyres | tyre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 work | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 footballs | cc |
| 13 | footballs | football | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 tyres | conj |
| 14 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 pushes | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Squashed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squash back | participle | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | push | present | Squashed air | hard property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | work property | tree rules |
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:004-solids-liquids-and-gases.lesson:8.
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 ×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.
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