Magnets: pulling and pushing without touching, sentence 8
Iron filings sprinkled around a magnet line up and show its invisible magnetic field; the lines bunch up at the poles, where the pull is strongest.
Who acts: Iron filings, lines, pull · What happens: sprinkle, line up, show, bunch up, be · To what, where: Iron filings, magnet, invisible magnetic field, poles
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 (Iron filings, lines, 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 | Iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 filings | compound |
| 2 | filings | filing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 line | nsubj |
| 3 | sprinkled | sprinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 filings | acl |
| 4 | around | around | ADP | _ | 6 magnet | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 magnet | det |
| 6 | magnet | magnet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sprinkled | nmod |
| 7 | line | line | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 line | compound:prt |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 show | cc |
| 10 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 line | conj |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 field | nmod:poss |
| 12 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 field | amod |
| 13 | magnetic | magnetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 field | amod |
| 14 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 show | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 bunch | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lines | det |
| 17 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 bunch | nsubj |
| 18 | bunch | bunch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 show | conj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 bunch | compound:prt |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 poles | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 poles | det |
| 22 | poles | pole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 bunch | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 strongest | punct |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 strongest | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 pull | det |
| 26 | pull | pull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 strongest | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 strongest | cop |
| 28 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 poles | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 line | 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 | sprinkle | participle | Iron filings not said here | a magnet | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme around magnet=Destination | ||||
| 2 | line up | present | Iron filings | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | show | present | Iron filings not said here | magnet's invisible magnetic field | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent field=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | bunch up | present | the lines | the poles | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | present | the pull | strong property | 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:8.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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