Wind and the air around the Earth, sentence 10

High up the thin air presses less on you, so your ears can pop when you go up a high hill or fly in a plane.

Who acts: thin air, ears, you · What happens: press, pop, go up, fly · To what, where: high hill, plane

This is a sentence of the lesson «Wind and the air around the Earth» of the world 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 (thin air, ears, you), 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	High	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 up	advmod
2	up	up	ADV	_	6 presses	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 air	det
4	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 air	amod
5	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 presses	nsubj
6	presses	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 presses	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 you	case
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 presses	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 pop	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	15 pop	advmod
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 ears	nmod:poss
13	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 pop	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 pop	aux
15	pop	pop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 presses	parataxis
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 go	advmod
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 go	nsubj
18	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 pop	advcl
19	up	up	PART	_	18 go	compound:prt
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 hill	det
21	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 hill	amod
22	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 go	obl
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 fly	cc
24	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 go	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 plane	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 plane	det
27	plane	plane	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fly	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 presses	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	press	present	the thin air			on you; less property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on you=Theme
2	pop	can	your ears				vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	go up	present	you	a high hill			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	fly	infinitive	you not said here		a plane		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in plane=Location

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:world:069-wind-and-the-atmosphere.lesson:10.

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 ×3, 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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