Magnets: pulling and pushing without touching, sentence 0
A magnet can pull a paper clip across the table without touching it, through an invisible region around it called its magnetic field.
Who acts: magnet, invisible region · What happens: pull, touch, call · To what, where: paper clip, table, clip, invisible region, magnetic field · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Magnets: pulling and pushing without touching» 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 (magnet, invisible region), 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 | 4 pull | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 pull | aux |
| 4 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 clip | det |
| 6 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 clip | compound |
| 7 | clip | clip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pull | obj |
| 8 | across | across | ADP | _ | 10 table | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 table | det |
| 10 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pull | obl |
| 11 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 12 touching | mark |
| 12 | touching | touch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 pull | advcl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 touching | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 region | punct |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 region | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 region | det |
| 17 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 region | amod |
| 18 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 touching | obl |
| 19 | around | around | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 region | nmod |
| 21 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 region | acl |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 field | nmod:poss |
| 23 | magnetic | magnetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 field | amod |
| 24 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 called | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pull | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | can | a magnet | a paper clip | the table | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clip=Theme | |||
| 2 | touch | gerund | a magnet not said here | clip | a invisible region around magnet | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | |||
| 3 | call | participle | a invisible region around magnet not said here | magnet's magnetic field | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent field=Recipient |
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:physics:029-magnets-pulling-and-pushing-without-touching.lesson:0.
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. 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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