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title: Push an "empty" glass upside down into a bowl of water and the water… — The air we breathe · tree and pragmatics
description: Push an "empty" glass upside down into a bowl of water and the water will not fill it, because the glass is full of air. Who acts: you, water, glass. 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 cl
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# The air we breathe, sentence 2

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Push an "empty" glass upside down into a bowl of water and the water will not fill it, because the glass is full of air.

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**Who acts:** you, water, glass · **What happens:** push, not fill, be · **To what, where:** empty glass, bowl, glass

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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 (you, water, glass), 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:2
# text = Push an "empty" glass upside down into a bowl of water and the water will not fill it, because the glass is full of air.
# 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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Push	push	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
4	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:compound
7	upside	upside	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
8	down	down	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	advcl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push** | imperative | you *not said here* | a empty glass |  | a bowl of water |  | down *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent glass=Theme into bowl=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **fill** | future | the water | glass |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | the glass |  |  |  |  | of air; full *property* | tree rules |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:chemistry:033-the-air-we-breathe.lesson:2`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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