--- title: A magnet can pull a paper clip across the table without touching it,… — Magnets: pulling and pushing without touching · tree and pragmatics description: A magnet can pull a paper clip across the table without touching it, through an invisible region around it called its magnetic field. Who acts: magnet, invisible region. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magnet, invisible region), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:029-magnets-pulling-and-pushing-without-touching.lesson:0 # text = A magnet can pull a paper clip across the table without touching it, through an invisible region around it called its magnetic field. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 029-magnets-pulling-and-pushing-without-touching.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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 magnet magnet NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 clip clip NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 across across ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 11 without without SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 12 touching touch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 through through ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 invisible invisible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 region region NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 19 around around ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nmod _ _ 21 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 acl _ _ 22 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 magnetic magnetic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pull** | can | a magnet | a paper clip | | the table | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clip=Theme | | 2 | **touch** | gerund | a magnet *not said here* | clip | | a invisible region around magnet | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | | 3 | **call** | participle | a invisible region around magnet *not said here* | magnet's magnetic field | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent field=Recipient | 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](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:physics:029-magnets-pulling-and-pushing-without-touching.lesson:0`. **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. **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/). - ← previous: [Electricity and safety, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/28-electricity-and-safety/16/) - next →: [Magnets: pulling and pushing without t…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/29-magnets-pulling-and-pushing-without-touching/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/29-magnets-pulling-and-pushing-without-touching/)