--- title: Moving air pushes on whatever is in its way, so it can lift a kite,… — Wind and weather · tree and pragmatics description: Moving air pushes on whatever is in its way, so it can lift a kite, flip an umbrella, slam a door or, when it is very fast, push a tree over. Who acts: Moving air, 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 (Moving air, air), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:015-wind-and-weather.lesson:2 # text = Moving air pushes on whatever is in its way, so it can lift a kite, flip an umbrella, slam a door or, when it is very fast, push a tree over. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 015-wind-and-weather.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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 amod _ _ 2 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 whatever whatever PRON WP PronType=Rel 3 obl _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 acl:relcl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 lift lift VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 kite kite NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct 18 flip flip VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 19 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 umbrella umbrella NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 slam slam VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 31 advmod _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 very very ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 advcl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 33 push push VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 over over ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **move** | gerund | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **push** | present | Moving air | | | | | on whatever | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on whatever=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | air's way | | | tree rules | | 4 | **lift** | can | air | a kite | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kite=Theme | | 5 | **flip** | infinitive | air *not said here* | a umbrella | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent umbrella=Theme | | 6 | **slam** | infinitive | air *not said here* | a door | | | | | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | | 7 | **is** | present | air | | | | | fast *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **push over** | infinitive | air *not said here* | a tree | | | | over *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=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:015-wind-and-weather.lesson:2`. **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, R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [Wind and weather, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/15-wind-and-weather/1/) - next →: [Wind and weather, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/15-wind-and-weather/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/15-wind-and-weather/)