Magnets: pulling and pushing without touching, sentence 5
Magnets pull iron and steel without touching them, and the pull fades quickly with distance.
Who acts: Magnets, pull · What happens: pull, touch, fade · To what, where: iron
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 (Magnets, pull), 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 | Magnets | magnet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pull | nsubj |
| 2 | pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pull | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 steel | cc |
| 5 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 iron | conj |
| 6 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 7 touching | mark |
| 7 | touching | touch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 pull | advcl |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 touching | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fades | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fades | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pull | det |
| 12 | pull | pull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fades | nsubj |
| 13 | fades | fade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 pull | conj |
| 14 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 13 fades | advmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 distance | case |
| 16 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fades | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 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 | present | Magnets | iron and steel | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iron=Theme | ||||
| 2 | touch | gerund | Magnets not said here | iron | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | fade | present | the pull | with distance; quickly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with distance=Instrument |
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:5.
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): no change. 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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