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title: Air presses on us from all sides, and the air and liquids inside our… — The air we breathe · tree and pragmatics
description: Air presses on us from all sides, and the air and liquids inside our bodies press back out, so we do not feel its weight. Who acts: Air, we. A sentence of the lesson «The air we breathe» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The air we breathe, sentence 10

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Air presses on us from all sides, and the air and liquids inside our bodies press back out, so we do not feel its weight.

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**Who acts:** Air, we · **What happens:** press, not feel · **To what, where:** sides, weight

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The air we breathe» of the chemistry 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, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:033-the-air-we-breathe.lesson:10
# text = Air presses on us from all sides, and the air and liquids inside our bodies press back out, so we do not feel its weight.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 033-the-air-we-breathe.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	Air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	presses	press	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	liquids	liquid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
17	press	press	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	back	back	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	out	out	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
22	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **press** | present | Air |  |  | all sides |  | on us | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on we=Theme |
| 2 | **press** | present | the air inside our bodies and liquids |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **feel** | present · do-support | we | air's weight |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Theme |

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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.

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**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. **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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