The air presses on everything, sentence 4

Many tricks, from a sucker on the tiles to a card holding water in an upside-down glass, are the outside air winning a pushing match.

Who acts: card, Many tricks, outside air · What happens: hold, be, win, push · To what, where: water, down glass, outside air, pushing match

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 (card, Many tricks, outside 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tricks	amod
2	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 air	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sucker	punct
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 sucker	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sucker	det
6	sucker	sucker	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tricks	nmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 tiles	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tiles	det
9	tiles	tile	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sucker	nmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 card	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 card	det
12	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tiles	nmod
13	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 card	acl
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 holding	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	20 glass	case
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 glass	det
17	upside	upside	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 down	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 down	punct
19	down	down	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 glass	compound
20	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 holding	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 tricks	punct
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 air	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 air	det
24	outside	outside	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 air	amod
25	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
26	winning	win	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 air	acl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 match	det
28	pushing	push	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 match	amod
29	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 winning	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 air	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hold	gerund	a card not said here	water	a down glass	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Theme in glass=Location
2	is a	present	Many tricks from a sucker on the tiles to a card	the outside air		tree rules
3	win	gerund	the outside air not said here	a pushing match		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Eventuality
4	push	gerund				vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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:4.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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