Pressure tricks: pumps, tyres and vacuums, sentence 8
Squeezing a ketchup bottle raises the pressure inside, and a push on a closed bottle spreads to every part, so the sauce is pushed out of the hole; when you let go, the bottle springs back and outside air is pushed in with a gurgle.
Who acts: Squeezing, push, you, bottle · What happens: squeeze, raise, close, spread, push out, let · To what, where: ketchup bottle, pressure, sauce, hole, outside air
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 (Squeezing, push, you, bottle), 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 | Squeezing | squeeze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 raises | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bottle | det |
| 3 | ketchup | ketchup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bottle | compound |
| 4 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Squeezing | obj |
| 5 | raises | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pressure | det |
| 7 | pressure | pressure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 raises | obj |
| 8 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 5 raises | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 spreads | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 spreads | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 push | det |
| 12 | push | push | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spreads | nsubj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 bottle | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 bottle | det |
| 15 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 bottle | amod |
| 16 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 push | nmod |
| 17 | spreads | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 raises | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 part | case |
| 19 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 part | det |
| 20 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spreads | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 pushed | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 pushed | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sauce | det |
| 24 | sauce | sauce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pushed | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 pushed | aux:pass |
| 26 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 raises | conj |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 hole | case |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 hole | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 hole | det |
| 30 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pushed | obl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 let | punct |
| 32 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 34 let | advmod |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 let | nsubj |
| 34 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 springs | advcl |
| 35 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 let | xcomp |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 springs | punct |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 bottle | det |
| 38 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 springs | nsubj |
| 39 | springs | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 raises | parataxis |
| 40 | back | back | ADV | _ | 39 springs | advmod |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 pushed | cc |
| 42 | outside | outside | ADJ | _ | 43 air | amod |
| 43 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 pushed | nsubj:pass |
| 44 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 pushed | aux:pass |
| 45 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 springs | conj |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 pushed | compound:prt |
| 47 | with | with | ADP | _ | 49 gurgle | case |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 gurgle | det |
| 49 | gurgle | gurgle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 pushed | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 raises | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squeeze | gerund | a ketchup bottle | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme | |||||
| 2 | raise | present | Squeezing | the pressure | inside property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pressure=Theme | |||
| 3 | close | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | spread | present | a push on a closed bottle | to every part | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | push out | present · passive | the sauce | the hole | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme hole=Destination | ||||
| 6 | let | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | go | infinitive | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | spring back | present | the bottle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | push in | present · passive | outside air | with a gurgle | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:016-pressure-tricks-pumps-tyres-vacuums.lesson:8.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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