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title: The air presses on every surface from all sides, and we do not feel… — The air presses on everything · tree and pragmatics
description: The air presses on every surface from all sides, and we do not feel it because our body pushes back just as hard. Who acts: we, body. 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 clause.
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# The air presses on everything, sentence 6

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The air presses on every surface from all sides, and we do not feel it because our body pushes back just as hard.

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**Who acts:** we, body · **What happens:** press, not feel, push back · **To what, where:** air

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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 (we, body), 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:6
# text = The air presses on every surface from all sides, and we do not feel it because our body pushes back just as hard.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	presses	press	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	because	because	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=ADP	20	mark	_	_
18	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
21	back	back	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	just	just	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	as	as	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advmod
25	.	.	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 | **press** | present |  |  |  |  |  | from all sides; on every surface | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on surface=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **feel** | present · do-support | we | air |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **push back** | present | our body |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

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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:6`.

**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/).

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