--- title: A card can hold the water in an upside-down full glass, because the… — The air presses on everything · tree and pragmatics description: A card can hold the water in an upside-down full glass, because the air pushes up on the card harder than the water pushes down. Who acts: card, air, water. 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 pragma --- [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/11/) [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/) / 11 # The air presses on everything, sentence 11 A card can hold the water in an upside-down full glass, because the air pushes up on the card harder than the water pushes down. **Who acts:** card, air, water · **What happens:** hold, push up, push down · **To what, where:** water, upside full glass 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 (card, air, water), 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:11 # text = A card can hold the water in an upside-down full glass, because the air pushes up on the card harder than the water pushes down. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 9 upside upside NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 11 down down ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 12 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 because because SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 19 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 harder hard ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 18 advmod _ _ 24 than than SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 28 down down ADV RB _ 27 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:advmod 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | can | a card | the water | | a upside full glass | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Theme in glass=Location | | 2 | **push up** | present | the air | | | | | on the card; hard *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on card=Theme | | 3 | **push down** | present | the water | | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | 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:11`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [The air presses on everything, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/14-the-air-presses-on-everything/10/) - next →: [The air presses on everything, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/14-the-air-presses-on-everything/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/14-the-air-presses-on-everything/)