Magnets, sentence 14
If you cut a magnet in half, each piece becomes a magnet with its own two poles.
Who acts: you, piece · What happens: cut, become · To what, where: magnet, half
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 (you, piece), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 cut | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 cut | nsubj |
| 3 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 becomes | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 magnet | det |
| 5 | magnet | magnet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cut | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 half | case |
| 7 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 3 cut | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cut | punct |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 piece | det |
| 10 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 becomes | nsubj |
| 11 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 magnet | det |
| 13 | magnet | magnet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 becomes | xcomp |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 poles | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 poles | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 poles | amod |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 poles | nummod |
| 18 | poles | pole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 magnet | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 becomes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut a condition, not said to happen | present | you | a magnet | half | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magnet=Product | |||
| 2 | become | present | each piece | a magnet with magnet's own two poles | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:14.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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