Magnets: pulling and pushing without touching, sentence 15
An electric motor spins because electricity in a coil of wire makes it a magnet that is pushed and pulled by other magnets.
Who acts: electric motor, electricity · What happens: spin, make, push, pull · To what, where: motor, magnet
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 (electric motor, electricity), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 motor | det |
| 2 | electric | electric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 motor | amod |
| 3 | motor | motor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spins | nsubj |
| 4 | spins | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 makes | mark |
| 6 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 makes | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 coil | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 coil | det |
| 9 | coil | coil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 electricity | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 wire | case |
| 11 | wire | wire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 coil | nmod |
| 12 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 spins | advcl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 makes | obj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 magnet | det |
| 15 | magnet | magnet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 makes | xcomp |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 pushed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 pushed | aux:pass |
| 18 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 magnet | acl:relcl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 pulled | cc |
| 20 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 pushed | conj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 magnets | case |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 magnets | amod |
| 23 | magnets | magnet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 pulled | obl:agent |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spins | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spin | present | a electric motor | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make | present | electricity in a coil of wire | motor | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | ||||
| 3 | push | present · passive | a magnet | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | pull | participle | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:15.
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 ×2, 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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