--- title: mate says air don't weigh nothing, it's just air. right? — The air presses on everything · tree and pragmatics description: mate says air don't weigh nothing, it's just air. right? Test 1 of lesson 14 «The air presses on everything» of the physics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/physics/14-the-air-presses-on-everything/t1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Physics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/physics/) / [The air presses on everything](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/physics/14-the-air-presses-on-everything/) / t1 # Test 1 · The air presses on everything mate says air don't weigh nothing, it's just air. right? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** mate · **What happens:** say, not weigh, be · **To what, where:** air, nothing · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 1 of lesson 14 «The air presses on everything» of the physics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/physics/14-the-air-presses-on-everything/#t1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:physics:14-the-air-presses-on-everything:t1:1 # text = mate says air don't weigh nothing, it's just air. right? 1 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 5 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 weigh weigh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 7 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 just just ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 14 right right INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | mate | air | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **weigh** | present · do-support | | nothing | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme nothing=Value | | 3 | **is a** | present | mate | air | | | | | tree rules | 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. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} Yes, air is weightless ```conllu # sent_id = question:physics:14-the-air-presses-on-everything:t1:o1:1 # text = Yes, air is weightless 1 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 weightless weightless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | air | | | | | weightless *property* | tree rules | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2} No, air has weight, a classroom's air weighs as much as several kids ```conllu # sent_id = question:physics:14-the-air-presses-on-everything:t1:o2:1 # text = No, air has weight, a classroom's air weighs as much as several kids 1 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 classroom classroom NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 weighs weigh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 12 as as ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 obj _ _ 14 as as ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | air | weight | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Patient | | 2 | **weigh** | present | a classroom's air | much | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme much=Value | ### Option 3 {#o3} Yes, only wet air has weight ```conllu # sent_id = question:physics:14-the-air-presses-on-everything:t1:o3:1 # text = Yes, only wet air has weight 1 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 only only ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 4 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | wet air | weight | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Patient | ### Option 4 {#o4} No, but only air inside a balloon weighs anything ```conllu # sent_id = question:physics:14-the-air-presses-on-everything:t1:o4:1 # text = No, but only air inside a balloon weighs anything 1 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 9 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 3 but but CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 4 only only ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 6 inside inside ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 balloon balloon NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 weighs weigh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 9 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **weigh** | present | air inside a balloon | anything | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme anything=Value | **Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. 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