Compasses and the magnetic Earth, sentence 0

The whole Earth behaves like a giant magnet, and a compass needle is simply a little magnet free to turn, so it lines up with the Earth's pull and points north.

Who acts: whole Earth, compass needle, needle, Earth · What happens: behave, be, turn, line up, point, pull

This is a sentence of the lesson «Compasses and the magnetic Earth» 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 (whole Earth, compass needle, needle, Earth), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Earth	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Earth	amod
3	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 behaves	nsubj
4	behaves	behave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 magnet	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 magnet	det
7	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 magnet	amod
8	magnet	magnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 behaves	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 free	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 free	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 needle	det
12	compass	compass	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 needle	compound
13	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 free	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 free	cop
15	simply	simply	ADV	_	19 free	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 magnet	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 magnet	amod
18	magnet	magnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 needle	appos
19	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 behaves	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 turn	mark
21	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 free	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 lines	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	25 lines	advmod
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 lines	nsubj
25	lines	line	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 behaves	conj
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 lines	compound:prt
27	with	with	ADP	_	31 pull	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Earth	det
29	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 pull	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 Earth	case
31	pull	pull	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lines	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 points	cc
33	points	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 lines	conj
34	north	north	ADV	_	33 points	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 behaves	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	behave	present	the whole Earth	like a giant magnet	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent like magnet=Attribute
2	is	present	a compass needle	free, simply property	tree rules
3	turn	to-infinitive	a compass needle not said here		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	line up	present	needle	with the Earth's pull	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
5	point	present	needle not said here	north property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	pull		the Earth		nom pull «act transitive»: poss=agent

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:030-compasses-and-the-magnetic-earth.lesson:0.

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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