Separating mixtures, sentence 9
A magnet pulls out iron and steel things but not sand; aluminium cans are not picked up by a magnet.
Who acts: magnet · What happens: pull out, not pick up · To what, where: iron things, aluminium cans
This is a sentence of the lesson «Separating mixtures» of the chemistry 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 (magnet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 magnet | det |
| 2 | magnet | magnet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pulls | nsubj |
| 3 | pulls | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 pulls | compound:prt |
| 5 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 things | compound |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 things | cc |
| 7 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 iron | conj |
| 8 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pulls | obj |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 sand | cc |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 sand | advmod |
| 11 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 things | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 picked | punct |
| 13 | aluminium | aluminium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cans | compound |
| 14 | cans | can | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 picked | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 picked | aux:pass |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 picked | advmod |
| 17 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 pulls | parataxis |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 picked | compound:prt |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 magnet | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 magnet | det |
| 21 | magnet | magnet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 picked | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pulls | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull out | present | a magnet | iron things but sand | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not pick up | present · passive | a magnet | aluminium cans | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
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, 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:chemistry:008-separating-mixtures.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): R5-strong ×1, 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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