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title: A magnet pulls out iron and steel things but not sand; aluminium can… — Separating mixtures · tree and pragmatics
description: A magnet pulls out iron and steel things but not sand; aluminium cans are not picked up by a magnet. Who acts: magnet. A sentence of the lesson «Separating mixtures» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Separating mixtures, sentence 9

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A magnet pulls out iron and steel things but not sand; aluminium cans are not picked up by a magnet.

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**Who acts:** magnet · **What happens:** pull out, not pick up · **To what, where:** iron things, aluminium cans

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Separating mixtures» of the chemistry 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 (magnet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:008-separating-mixtures.lesson:9
# text = A magnet pulls out iron and steel things but not sand; aluminium cans are not picked up by a magnet.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 008-separating-mixtures.lesson
# annotation = 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	magnet	magnet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pulls	pull	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
8	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	aluminium	aluminium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	cans	can	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	picked	pick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	magnet	magnet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull out** | present | a magnet | iron things but sand |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **pick up** | present · passive | a magnet | aluminium cans |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:chemistry:008-separating-mixtures.lesson:9`.

**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 ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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