Magnets, sentence 13
A compass needle is a small magnet that lines up north and south.
Who acts: compass needle, small magnet · What happens: be, line up · To what, where: small 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 (compass needle, small 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 needle | det |
| 2 | compass | compass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 needle | compound |
| 3 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 magnet | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 magnet | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 magnet | det |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 magnet | amod |
| 7 | magnet | magnet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 lines | nsubj |
| 9 | lines | line | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 magnet | acl:relcl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 lines | compound:prt |
| 11 | north | north | ADV | _ | 9 lines | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 south | cc |
| 13 | south | south | ADV | _ | 11 north | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 magnet | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a compass needle | a small magnet | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | line up | present | a small magnet | north property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: 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:world:081-magnets.lesson:13.
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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