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title: Astronauts need pressurised suits (suits with air pressed in), becau… — The air presses on everything · tree and pragmatics
description: Astronauts need pressurised suits (suits with air pressed in), because in space there is no air pressing on the outside of their bodies. Who acts: Astronauts, 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
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# The air presses on everything, sentence 17

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Astronauts need pressurised suits (suits with air pressed in), because in space there is no air pressing on the outside of their bodies.

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**Who acts:** Astronauts, air · **What happens:** need, pressurise, press in, be, press · **To what, where:** pressurised suits, suits, space

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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 (Astronauts, 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:17
# text = Astronauts need pressurised suits (suits with air pressed in), because in space there is no air pressing on the outside of their bodies.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Astronauts	astronaut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	pressurised	pressurise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	amod	_	_
4	suits	suit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
6	suits	suit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	pressed	press	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	_
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
20	pressing	press	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	outside	outside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obl
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | Astronauts | pressurised suits |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot suit=Theme |
| 2 | **pressurise** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **press in** | participle |  | suits with air *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **be** | present | no air |  |  | space; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in space=Location |
| 5 | **press** | gerund | no air *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the outside of suits's bodies | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on outside=Theme |

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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:physics:014-the-air-presses-on-everything.lesson:17`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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