---
title: With a finger over the top of a straw, the drink stays in it, becaus… — The air presses on everything · tree and pragmatics
description: With a finger over the top of a straw, the drink stays in it, because the air below pushes up and no air can push down from above. Who acts: drink, air. A sentence of the lesson «The air presses on everything» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/14-the-air-presses-on-everything/10/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Physics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/) / [The air presses on everything](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/14-the-air-presses-on-everything/) / 10

# The air presses on everything, sentence 10

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
With a finger over the top of a straw, the drink stays in it, because the air below pushes up and no air can push down from above.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** drink, air · **What happens:** stay, push up, push down · **To what, where:** straw

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «The air presses on everything» of the physics 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 (drink, 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:10
# text = With a finger over the top of a straw, the drink stays in it, because the air below pushes up and no air can push down from above.
# 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	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	below	below	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
25	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
28	down	down	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	above	above	ADV	RB	_	27	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | present | the drink |  |  | straw |  | with a finger over the top of a straw | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location |
| 2 | **push up** | present | the air |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **push down** | can | no air |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from above=Co-Patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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: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): 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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [The air presses on everything, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/14-the-air-presses-on-everything/9/)
- next →: [The air presses on everything, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/14-the-air-presses-on-everything/11/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/14-the-air-presses-on-everything/)