Compasses and the magnetic Earth, sentence 16
A loudspeaker uses electricity in a coil next to a magnet to push a cone in and out, making sound waves in the air.
Who acts: loudspeaker · What happens: use, push, make · To what, where: electricity, coil, cone, sound waves, air
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 (loudspeaker), 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 loudspeaker | det |
| 2 | loudspeaker | loudspeaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 uses | nsubj |
| 3 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 uses | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 coil | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 coil | det |
| 7 | coil | coil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 uses | obl |
| 8 | next | next | ADV | _ | 11 magnet | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 magnet | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 magnet | det |
| 11 | magnet | magnet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 coil | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 push | mark |
| 13 | push | push | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 uses | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 cone | det |
| 15 | cone | cone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 push | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADV | _ | 13 push | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 out | cc |
| 18 | out | out | ADV | _ | 16 in | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 making | punct |
| 20 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 push | advcl |
| 21 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 waves | compound |
| 22 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 making | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 air | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 air | det |
| 25 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 making | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 uses | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | a loudspeaker | electricity | a coil to a magnet | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Patient | |||
| 2 | push | to-infinitive | a loudspeaker not said here | a cone | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cone=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | gerund | a loudspeaker not said here | sound waves | the air | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wave=Product |
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:16.
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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