The air presses on everything, sentence 7

When you drink through a straw, you lower the air pressure inside it, and the air pressing on the drink in the cup pushes the drink up.

Who acts: you, air · What happens: drink, lower, press, push up · To what, where: straw, air pressure, air, drink

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), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 drink	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 drink	nsubj
3	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 lower	advcl
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 straw	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 straw	det
6	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drink	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 drink	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 lower	nsubj
9	lower	lower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pressure	det
11	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pressure	compound
12	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lower	obj
13	inside	inside	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lower	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 pushes	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 pushes	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 air	det
18	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pushes	nsubj
19	pressing	press	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 air	acl
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 drink	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 drink	det
22	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pressing	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 cup	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 cup	det
25	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 drink	nmod
26	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 lower	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 drink	det
28	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pushes	obj
29	up	up	PART	_	26 pushes	compound:prt
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 lower	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drink	present	you		a straw		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lower	present	you	the air pressure	air		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pressure=Theme inside it=Destination
3	press	gerund	the air not said here			on the drink in the cup	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on drink=Theme
4	push up	present	the air	the drink			vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=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:7.

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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/14-the-air-presses-on-everything/7/