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title: On the Moon, where there is no air, drinking through a straw would n… — The air presses on everything · tree and pragmatics
description: On the Moon, where there is no air, drinking through a straw would not work at all. Who acts: air, drinking. 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 9

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On the Moon, where there is no air, drinking through a straw would not work at all.

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**Who acts:** air, drinking · **What happens:** be, drink, not work · **To what, where:** straw

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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 (air, drinking), 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:9
# text = On the Moon, where there is no air, drinking through a straw would not work at all.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	_
6	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
7	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	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 | **be** | present | no air |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **drink** | gerund |  |  |  | a straw |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **work** | would | drinking |  |  |  |  | at all; on the Moon | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme PP.beneficary»: agent=Agent on moon=Theme at all=Beneficiary |

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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:9`.

**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): R7-rel-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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