--- title: When you drink through a straw, you lower the air pressure inside it… — The air presses on everything · tree and pragmatics description: When you drink through a straw, you lower the air pressure inside it, and the air pressing on the drink in the cup pushes the drink up. Who acts: you, air. 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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), 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:7 # text = When you drink through a straw, you lower the air pressure inside it, and the air pressing on the drink in the cup pushes the drink up. # 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 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 drink drink VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 4 through through ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 straw straw NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 lower lower VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 pressure pressure NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 inside inside ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 19 pressing press VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 acl _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 drink drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 cup cup NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 drink drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 up up PART RP _ 26 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:compound:prt 30 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drink** | present | you | | | a straw | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **lower** | present | you | the air pressure | | air | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pressure=Theme inside it=Destination | | 3 | **press** | gerund | the air *not said here* | | | | | on the drink in the cup | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on drink=Theme | | 4 | **push up** | present | the air | the drink | | | | | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=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:7`. **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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/14-the-air-presses-on-everything/6/) - next →: [The air presses on everything, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/14-the-air-presses-on-everything/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/14-the-air-presses-on-everything/)