The air presses on everything, sentence 9
On the Moon, where there is no air, drinking through a straw would not work at all.
Who acts: air, drinking · What happens: be, drink, not work · To what, where: straw
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 (air, drinking), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 Moon | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Moon | det |
| 3 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 work | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Moon | punct |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 is | advmod |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 is | expl |
| 7 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 Moon | acl:relcl |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 air | det |
| 9 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 is | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 drinking | punct |
| 11 | drinking | drink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 work | csubj |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 straw | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 straw | det |
| 14 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drinking | obl |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 work | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 work | advmod |
| 17 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 all | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 work | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 work | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no air | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drink | gerund | a straw | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not work | would | drinking | at all; on the Moon | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme PP.beneficary»: agent=Agent on moon=Theme at all=Beneficiary |
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:9.
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): 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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