--- title: An empty bottle closed during a flight is squashed when the plane la… — The air presses on everything · tree and pragmatics description: An empty bottle closed during a flight is squashed when the plane lands, because the thin air inside cannot push back against the stronger air at the ground. Who acts: plane, thin air. A sentence of the lesson «The air presses on everything» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its de --- [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/15/) [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/) / 15 # The air presses on everything, sentence 15 An empty bottle closed during a flight is squashed when the plane lands, because the thin air inside cannot push back against the stronger air at the ground. **Who acts:** plane, thin air · **What happens:** close, squash, land, not push back · **To what, where:** empty bottle 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 (plane, thin 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:15 # text = An empty bottle closed during a flight is squashed when the plane lands, because the thin air inside cannot push back against the stronger air at the ground. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 bottle bottle NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 closed close VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 5 during during ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 flight flight NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 squashed squash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det 12 plane plane NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 lands land VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 15 because because SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 19 inside inside ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 push push VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 23 back back ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 against against ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 amod _ _ 27 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **close** | participle | | a empty bottle *not said here* | | | during a flight | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **squash** | present · passive | | a empty bottle | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **land** | present | the plane | | | | | | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **not** **push back** | can | the thin air | | | | | against the stronger air at the ground | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent against air=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:15`. **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 ×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, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/14-the-air-presses-on-everything/13/) - next →: [The air presses on everything, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/14-the-air-presses-on-everything/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/14-the-air-presses-on-everything/)