Magnets: pulling and pushing without touching, sentence 9
A magnet is made of countless tiny magnets lined up together, so a magnet cut in half becomes two magnets, each with both poles.
Who acts: magnet · What happens: make, line up, cut, become · To what, where: magnet, countless tiny magnets, half, two magnets
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 (magnet), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 magnet | det |
| 2 | magnet | magnet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux:pass |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 magnets | case |
| 6 | countless | countless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 magnets | amod |
| 7 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 magnets | amod |
| 8 | magnets | magnet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | obl |
| 9 | lined | line | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 magnets | acl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 lined | compound:prt |
| 11 | together | together | ADV | _ | 9 lined | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 becomes | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 becomes | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 magnet | det |
| 15 | magnet | magnet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 becomes | nsubj |
| 16 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 magnet | acl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 half | case |
| 18 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 16 cut | obl |
| 19 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 magnets | nummod |
| 21 | magnets | magnet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 becomes | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 each | punct |
| 23 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 magnets | appos |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 poles | case |
| 25 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 poles | det |
| 26 | poles | pole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 each | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | a magnet | of countless tiny magnets | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | line up | participle | countless tiny magnets not said here | together property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cut | participle | a magnet not said here | half | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | become | present | a magnet | two magnets | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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:9.
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): 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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