The air presses on everything, sentence 3
You never feel squashed, because the air and liquids inside your body push back just as hard, so the pushes balance.
Who acts: You, air, the · What happens: not feel, squash, push back, push
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 (You, air, the), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 feel | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 feel | advmod |
| 3 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | squashed | squash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 feel | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 push | punct |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 push | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 air | det |
| 8 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 push | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 liquids | cc |
| 10 | liquids | liquid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 air | conj |
| 11 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 13 body | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 body | nmod:poss |
| 13 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 air | nmod |
| 14 | push | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 feel | advcl |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 push | advmod |
| 16 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 as | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 hard | advmod |
| 18 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 push | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 balance | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 pushes | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 pushes | nsubj |
| 22 | pushes | push | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 balance | compound |
| 23 | balance | balance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 feel | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not feel | present | You | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | squash | participle | You not said here | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | push back | present | the air inside your body and liquids | hard property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | push | the | 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:physics:014-the-air-presses-on-everything.lesson:3.
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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.
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