The air presses on everything, sentence 17

Astronauts need pressurised suits (suits with air pressed in), because in space there is no air pressing on the outside of their bodies.

Who acts: Astronauts, air · What happens: need, pressurise, press in, be, press · To what, where: pressurised suits, suits, space

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 (Astronauts, 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	Astronauts	astronaut	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pressurised	pressurise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 suits	amod
4	suits	suit	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	obj
5	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 suits	punct
6	suits	suit	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 suits	appos
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 air	case
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 suits	nmod
9	pressed	press	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 suits	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	9 pressed	obl
11	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 suits	punct
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 is	punct
13	because	because	SCONJ	_	17 is	mark
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 space	case
15	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 is	obl
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 is	expl
17	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 need	advcl
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 air	det
19	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 is	nsubj
20	pressing	press	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 air	acl
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 outside	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 outside	det
23	outside	outside	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pressing	nmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 bodies	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 bodies	nmod:poss
26	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 outside	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 need	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	need	present	Astronauts	pressurised suits			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot suit=Theme
2	pressurise	participle					tree rules
3	press in	participle		suits with air not said here			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	be	present	no air		space; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in space=Location
5	press	gerund	no air not said here			on the outside of suits's bodies	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on outside=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:17.

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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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