The air presses on everything, sentence 6
The air presses on every surface from all sides, and we do not feel it because our body pushes back just as hard.
Who acts: we, body · What happens: press, not feel, push back · To what, where: air
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, body), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 presses | det |
| 2 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 presses | compound |
| 3 | presses | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 surface | case |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 surface | det |
| 6 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 presses | obl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 sides | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 sides | det |
| 9 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 presses | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 feel | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 feel | cc |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 feel | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 feel | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 feel | advmod |
| 15 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 presses | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 feel | obj |
| 17 | because | because | SCONJ | ExtPos=ADP | 20 pushes | mark |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 body | nmod:poss |
| 19 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pushes | nsubj |
| 20 | pushes | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 feel | advcl |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 pushes | advmod |
| 22 | just | just | ADV | _ | 24 hard | advmod |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 hard | advmod |
| 24 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 pushes | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 presses | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | press | present | from all sides; on every surface | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on surface=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not feel | present · do-support | we | air | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | push back | present | our body | hard property | 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:6.
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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