Compasses and the magnetic Earth, sentence 7
A nearby magnet or piece of steel pulls the needle more strongly than the Earth and makes the compass wrong.
Who acts: nearby magnet · What happens: pull, make · To what, where: needle, 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 (nearby 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 | 3 magnet | det |
| 2 | nearby | nearby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 magnet | amod |
| 3 | magnet | magnet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pulls | nsubj |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 piece | cc |
| 5 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 magnet | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 steel | case |
| 7 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 piece | nmod |
| 8 | pulls | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 needle | det |
| 10 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pulls | obj |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 strongly | advmod |
| 12 | strongly | strongly | ADV | _ | 8 pulls | advmod |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 Earth | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Earth | det |
| 15 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 strongly | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 makes | cc |
| 17 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 pulls | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 compass | det |
| 19 | compass | compass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 makes | obj |
| 20 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 makes | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 pulls | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | present | a nearby magnet or piece of steel | the needle | strongly property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent needle=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | present | a nearby magnet or piece of steel not said here | the compass | wrong property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset compass=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:7.
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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