--- title: We live at the bottom of a deep ocean of air, and all that air above… — The air presses on everything · tree and pragmatics description: We live at the bottom of a deep ocean of air, and all that air above us has weight, so it presses on everything it touches. Who acts: We, air. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, air), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:014-the-air-presses-on-everything.lesson:0 # text = We live at the bottom of a deep ocean of air, and all that air above us has weight, so it presses on everything it touches. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 014-the-air-presses-on-everything.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): no change 1 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 ocean ocean NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 14 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 16 det:predet _ _ 15 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 16 det _ _ 16 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 17 above above ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nmod _ _ 19 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 20 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 presses press VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 24 obl _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 touches touch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | We | | | the bottom of a deep ocean of air | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bottom=Location | | 2 | **have** | present | all air above us | weight | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Patient | | 3 | **press** | present | air | | | | | on everything | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on everything=Theme | | 4 | **touch** | present | air | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=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](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:physics:014-the-air-presses-on-everything.lesson:0`. **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): no change. **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/). - ← previous: [Water safety and the ocean, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/13-water-safety-and-the-ocean/17/) - next →: [The air presses on everything, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/14-the-air-presses-on-everything/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/14-the-air-presses-on-everything/)