--- title: Pulling back a syringe's plunger makes more room inside, the pressur… — Pressure tricks: pumps, tyres and vacuums · tree and pragmatics description: Pulling back a syringe's plunger makes more room inside, the pressure drops, and the outside air pushes water in. Who acts: Pulling, pressure, outside air. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/16-pressure-tricks-pumps-tyres-vacuums/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Physics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/) / [Pressure tricks: pumps, tyres and vacu…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/16-pressure-tricks-pumps-tyres-vacuums/) / 9 # Pressure tricks: pumps, tyres and vacuums, sentence 9 Pulling back a syringe's plunger makes more room inside, the pressure drops, and the outside air pushes water in. **Who acts:** Pulling, pressure, outside air · **What happens:** pull back, make, drop, push · **To what, where:** plunger, more room, water 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 (Pulling, pressure, outside air), 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:9 # text = Pulling back a syringe's plunger makes more room inside, the pressure drops, and the outside air pushes water in. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Pulling pull VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 csubj _ _ 2 back back ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det 4 syringe syringe NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 plunger plunger NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 7 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 9 amod _ _ 9 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 inside inside ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:det 13 pressure pressure NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 drops drop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=14:punct 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 outside outside ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj 21 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 in in ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pull back** | gerund | | a syringe's plunger | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plunger=Theme | | 2 | **make** | present | Pulling | more room | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset room=Product | | 3 | **drop** | present | the pressure | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **push** | present | the outside air | water | | | | | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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:016-pressure-tricks-pumps-tyres-vacuums.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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. 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