Pressure tricks: pumps, tyres and vacuums, sentence 0

Air always moves from where it is squashed and presses harder to where it presses less, and many machines in your home are clever ways of using that one rule.

Who acts: Air, many machines, clever ways · What happens: move, squash, press, be, use · To what, where: Air, clever ways, one rule

This is a sentence of the lesson «Pressure tricks: pumps, tyres and vacuums» 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, many machines, clever ways), 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	Air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moves	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	_	3 moves	advmod
3	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	SCONJ	_	8 squashed	mark
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 squashed	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 squashed	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 squashed	aux:pass
8	squashed	squash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 moves	advcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 presses	cc
10	presses	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 moves	conj
11	harder	hard	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 presses	advmod
12	to	to	SCONJ	_	15 presses	mark
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 presses	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 presses	nsubj
15	presses	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 presses	conj
16	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 presses	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 ways	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 ways	cc
19	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 machines	amod
20	machines	machine	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 ways	nsubj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 home	case
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 home	nmod:poss
23	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 machines	nmod
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 ways	cop
25	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 ways	amod
26	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 moves	conj
27	of	of	SCONJ	_	28 using	mark
28	using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 ways	acl
29	that	that	DET	PronType=Dem	31 rule	det
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 rule	nummod
31	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 using	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 moves	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	move	present	Air		always property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	squash	present · passive		Air		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	press	present	Air not said here		hard property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	press	present	Air		less property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	many machines in your home	clever ways		tree rules
6	use	gerund	clever ways not said here	that one rule		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient

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:016-pressure-tricks-pumps-tyres-vacuums.lesson:0.

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): no change. 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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