Magnets: pulling and pushing without touching, sentence 3
Inside a magnet, countless tiny magnets are lined up the same way; cut it in half and each half is a whole magnet with its own north and south.
Who acts: half · What happens: line up, cut, be · To what, where: countless tiny magnets, magnet, half, whole 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 (half), 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 | Inside | inside | ADP | _ | 3 magnet | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 magnet | det |
| 3 | magnet | magnet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lined | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 magnet | punct |
| 5 | countless | countless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 magnets | amod |
| 6 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 magnets | amod |
| 7 | magnets | magnet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lined | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 lined | aux:pass |
| 9 | lined | line | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 lined | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 way | det |
| 12 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 way | amod |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lined | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 cut | punct |
| 15 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 lined | advcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cut | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 half | case |
| 18 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 15 cut | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 magnet | cc |
| 20 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 half | det |
| 21 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 25 magnet | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 magnet | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 magnet | det |
| 24 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 magnet | amod |
| 25 | magnet | magnet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cut | conj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 own | case |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 north | nmod:poss |
| 28 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 north | amod |
| 29 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 magnet | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 south | cc |
| 31 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 north | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lined | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | line up | present · passive | countless tiny magnets | a magnet | the same way obl | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | |||
| 2 | cut | infinitive | magnet | half | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | each half | a whole magnet | magnet's own north and south nmod | 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:3.
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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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