The air presses on everything, sentence 0

We live at the bottom of a deep ocean of air, and all that air above us has weight, so it presses on everything it touches.

Who acts: We, air · What happens: live, have, press, touch · To what, where: bottom, weight

This is a sentence of the lesson «The air presses on everything» of the physics 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 (We, 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 live	nsubj
2	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 bottom	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bottom	det
5	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 live	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 ocean	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 ocean	det
8	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ocean	amod
9	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bottom	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 air	case
11	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ocean	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 has	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 has	cc
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 air	det:predet
15	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 air	det
16	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 has	nsubj
17	above	above	ADP	_	18 us	case
18	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 air	nmod
19	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 live	conj
20	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 has	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 presses	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	24 presses	advmod
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 presses	nsubj
24	presses	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 live	conj
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 everything	case
26	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	24 presses	obl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 touches	nsubj
28	touches	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 everything	acl:relcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 live	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	present	We		the bottom of a deep ocean of air		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bottom=Location
2	have	present	all air above us	weight			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Patient
3	press	present	air			on everything	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on everything=Theme
4	touch	present	air				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=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:physics:014-the-air-presses-on-everything.lesson:0.

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.

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