Magnets, sentence 10
The pull of a magnet gets weaker with distance.
Who acts: pull · What happens: get, pull · To what, where: magnet
This is a sentence of the lesson «Magnets» of the world 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 (pull), 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 | 2 pull | det |
| 2 | pull | pull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gets | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 magnet | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 magnet | det |
| 5 | magnet | magnet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pull | nmod |
| 6 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | weaker | weak | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 gets | xcomp |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 distance | case |
| 9 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 weaker | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gets | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | the pull of a magnet | weak property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | pull | a magnet | nom pull «act transitive»: of=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:world:081-magnets.lesson:10.
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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