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title: On a high mountain the air presses less, so water boils below 100 de… — Pressure tricks: pumps, tyres and vacuums · tree and pragmatics
description: On a high mountain the air presses less, so water boils below 100 degrees and pasta and eggs take longer to cook. Who acts: air, water, pasta. A sentence of the lesson «Pressure tricks: pumps, tyres and vacuums» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Pressure tricks: pumps, tyres and vacuums, sentence 13

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On a high mountain the air presses less, so water boils below 100 degrees and pasta and eggs take longer to cook.

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**Who acts:** air, water, pasta · **What happens:** press, boil, take, cook · **To what, where:** 100 degrees

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pressure tricks: pumps, tyres and vacuums» 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, water, pasta), 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:13
# text = On a high mountain the air presses less, so water boils below 100 degrees and pasta and eggs take longer to cook.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	presses	press	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
8	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	boils	boil	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	below	below	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
14	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	pasta	pasta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
20	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJR:Degree=Cmp
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20: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 | the air |  |  |  |  | on a high mountain; less *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on mountain=Theme |
| 2 | **boil** | present | water |  |  | 100 degrees |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **take** | present | pasta and eggs |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **cook** | to-infinitive | pasta and eggs *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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:016-pressure-tricks-pumps-tyres-vacuums.lesson:13`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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