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title: High up the thin air presses less on you, so your ears can pop when… — Wind and the air around the Earth · tree and pragmatics
description: High up the thin air presses less on you, so your ears can pop when you go up a high hill or fly in a plane. Who acts: thin air, ears, you. A sentence of the lesson «Wind and the air around the Earth» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Wind and the air around the Earth, sentence 10

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High up the thin air presses less on you, so your ears can pop when you go up a high hill or fly in a plane.

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**Who acts:** thin air, ears, you · **What happens:** press, pop, go up, fly · **To what, where:** high hill, plane

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Wind and the air around the Earth» of the world 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 (thin air, ears, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:069-wind-and-the-atmosphere.lesson:10
# text = High up the thin air presses less on you, so your ears can pop when you go up a high hill or fly in a plane.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 069-wind-and-the-atmosphere.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	High	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
2	up	up	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det
4	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:amod
5	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	presses	press	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	pop	pop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
19	up	up	PART	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obj
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:conj
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	plane	plane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **press** | present | the thin air |  |  |  |  | on you; less *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on you=Theme |
| 2 | **pop** | can | your ears |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **go up** | present | you | a high hill |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **fly** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | a plane |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in plane=Location |

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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:world:069-wind-and-the-atmosphere.lesson:10`.

**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 ×3, 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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