Magnets: pulling and pushing without touching, sentence 12

Two small strong magnets swallowed by a child can pull together through the walls of the gut and badly damage it; this is an emergency.

Who acts: Two small strong magnets, this · What happens: swallow, pull together, damage, be · To what, where: Two small strong magnets, walls, magnet, emergency

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 (Two small strong magnets, this), 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	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 magnets	nummod
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 magnets	amod
3	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 magnets	amod
4	magnets	magnet	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pull	nsubj
5	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 magnets	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 child	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 child	det
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swallowed	obl
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 pull	aux
10	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	together	together	ADV	_	10 pull	advmod
12	through	through	ADP	_	14 walls	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 walls	det
14	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pull	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 gut	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 gut	det
17	gut	gut	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 walls	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 damage	cc
19	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 damage	advmod
20	damage	damage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 pull	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 damage	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 emergency	punct
23	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 emergency	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 emergency	cop
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 emergency	det
26	emergency	emergency	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pull	parataxis
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 pull	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: warn
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=warn

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	swallow	participle		Two small strong magnets not said here		by a child	vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pull together	can	Two small strong magnets		the walls of the gut	together property	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	damage	infinitive	Two small strong magnets not said here	magnet		badly property	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	is a	present	this	a emergency			tree rules

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:12.

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, 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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