The air presses on everything, sentence 13
Blowing more air into a balloon packs more air inside, which pushes harder on the rubber, so it grows bigger and tighter.
Who acts: Blowing, more air, air · What happens: blow, pack, push, grow · To what, where: more air, balloon
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 (Blowing, more air, 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 | Blowing | blow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 packs | csubj |
| 2 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 air | amod |
| 3 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Blowing | obj |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 balloon | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 balloon | det |
| 6 | balloon | balloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Blowing | obl |
| 7 | packs | pack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 air | amod |
| 9 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 packs | obj |
| 10 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 7 packs | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pushes | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 pushes | nsubj |
| 13 | pushes | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 air | acl:relcl |
| 14 | harder | hard | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 pushes | advmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 rubber | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rubber | det |
| 17 | rubber | rubber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pushes | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 grows | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 grows | advmod |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 grows | nsubj |
| 21 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 packs | parataxis |
| 22 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 grows | xcomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 tighter | cc |
| 24 | tighter | tight | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 bigger | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 packs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | gerund | more air | a balloon | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent air=Material into balloon=Product | ||||
| 2 | pack | present | Blowing | more air | inside property | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme air=Destination | |||
| 3 | push | present | more air | on the rubber; hard property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on rubber=Theme | ||||
| 4 | grow | present | air | big property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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:13.
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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