Compasses and the magnetic Earth, sentence 3
Put a compass next to a fridge magnet or a steel table and it goes wrong, because the close magnet pulls harder than the far-off Earth.
Who acts: you, compass, close magnet · What happens: put, go, pull · To what, where: compass
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 (you, compass, close 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 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 compass | det |
| 3 | compass | compass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obj |
| 4 | next | next | ADV | _ | 1 Put | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 magnet | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 magnet | det |
| 7 | fridge | fridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 magnet | compound |
| 8 | magnet | magnet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obl |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 table | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 table | det |
| 11 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 table | compound |
| 12 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 magnet | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 goes | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 goes | nsubj |
| 15 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Put | conj |
| 16 | wrong | wrong | ADV | _ | 15 goes | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 goes | punct |
| 18 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 22 pulls | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 magnet | det |
| 20 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 magnet | amod |
| 21 | magnet | magnet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pulls | nsubj |
| 22 | pulls | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 goes | advcl |
| 23 | harder | hard | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 pulls | advmod |
| 24 | than | than | ADP | _ | 26 far | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Earth | det |
| 26 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 harder | obl |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 far | punct |
| 28 | off | off | ADP | _ | 29 Earth | case |
| 29 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 harder | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Put | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | a compass | to a fridge magnet or a steel table; next property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent compass=Goal | |||
| 2 | go | present | compass | wrong property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pull | present | the close magnet | hard property | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:3.
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): R5-strong ×2. 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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