--- title: Air always moves from where it is squashed and presses harder to whe… — Pressure tricks: pumps, tyres and vacuums · tree and pragmatics description: Air always moves from where it is squashed and presses harder to where it presses less, and many machines in your home are clever ways of using that one rule. Who acts: Air, many machines, clever ways. 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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 (Air, many machines, clever ways), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:016-pressure-tricks-pumps-tyres-vacuums.lesson:0 # text = Air always moves from where it is squashed and presses harder to where it presses less, and many machines in your home are clever ways of using that one rule. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 016-pressure-tricks-pumps-tyres-vacuums.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): no change 1 Air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 always always ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 from from SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 5 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 8 advmod _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 squashed squash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 advcl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 presses press VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 harder hard ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 10 advmod _ _ 12 to to SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 15 advmod _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 presses press VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 16 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 15 advmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 19 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 machines machine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 27 of of SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 28 using use VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 acl _ _ 29 that that DET DT PronType=Dem 31 det _ _ 30 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **move** | present | Air | | | | | always *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **squash** | present · passive | | Air | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **press** | present | Air *not said here* | | | | | hard *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **press** | present | Air | | | | | less *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | present | many machines in your home | clever ways | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **use** | gerund | clever ways *not said here* | that one rule | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient | 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. 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