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title: You never feel squashed, because the air and liquids inside your bod… — The air presses on everything · tree and pragmatics
description: You never feel squashed, because the air and liquids inside your body push back just as hard, so the pushes balance. Who acts: You, air, the. 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 of every c
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# The air presses on everything, sentence 3

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You never feel squashed, because the air and liquids inside your body push back just as hard, so the pushes balance.

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**Who acts:** You, air, the · **What happens:** not feel, squash, push back, push

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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 (You, air, the), 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:3
# text = You never feel squashed, because the air and liquids inside your body push back just as hard, so the pushes balance.
# 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	squashed	squash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	liquids	liquid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
14	push	push	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
15	back	back	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	just	just	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advmod
18	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advmod
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:det
22	pushes	push	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	compound	_	_
23	balance	balance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	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 | **not** **feel** | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **squash** | participle | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **push back** | present | the air inside your body and liquids |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **push** |  | the |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:3`.

**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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/).

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