Magnets: pulling and pushing without touching, sentence 10
Stroking a steel paper clip or needle with a magnet lines up its tiny magnets and makes it a weak magnet; dropping or heating it jumbles them again.
Who acts: Stroking, magnet · What happens: stroke, line up, make, drop, heat, jumble · To what, where: paper clip, tiny magnets, magnet, pole
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 (Stroking, 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 | Stroking | stroke | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 lines | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 clip | det |
| 3 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 paper | compound |
| 4 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 clip | compound |
| 5 | clip | clip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stroking | obj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 needle | cc |
| 7 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 clip | conj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 magnet | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 magnet | det |
| 10 | magnet | magnet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 clip | nmod |
| 11 | lines | line | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 lines | compound:prt |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 magnets | nmod:poss |
| 14 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 magnets | amod |
| 15 | magnets | magnet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lines | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 makes | cc |
| 17 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 lines | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 makes | obj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 magnet | det |
| 20 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 magnet | amod |
| 21 | magnet | magnet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 makes | xcomp |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 dropping | punct |
| 23 | dropping | drop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 makes | conj |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 heating | cc |
| 25 | heating | heat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 dropping | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 jumbles | nsubj |
| 27 | jumbles | jumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 dropping | parataxis |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 jumbles | obj |
| 29 | again | again | ADV | _ | 27 jumbles | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 lines | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stroke | gerund | a paper clip or needle | with a magnet | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent clip=Theme with magnet=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | line up | present | Stroking | magnet's tiny magnets | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme magnet=Destination | ||||
| 3 | make | present | Stroking not said here | magnet | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | ||||
| 4 | drop | gerund | Stroking not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | heat | gerund | Stroking not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | jumble | present | magnet | pole | again | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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: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): R8-pos-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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