--- title: Stroking a steel paper clip or needle with a magnet lines up its tin… — Magnets: pulling and pushing without touching · tree and pragmatics description: Stroking a steel paper clip or needle with a magnet lines up its tiny magnets and makes it a weak magnet; dropping or heating it jumbles them again. Who acts: Stroking, magnet. 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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 (Stroking, magnet), 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:10 # text = Stroking a steel paper clip or needle with a magnet lines up its tiny magnets and makes it a weak magnet; dropping or heating it jumbles them again. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Stroking stroke VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 steel steel NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 clip clip NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 needle needle NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 magnet magnet NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 11 lines line VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 up up ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 13 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 magnets magnet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 magnet magnet NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 xcomp _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 dropping drop VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 conj _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 heating heat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 conj _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 jumbles jumble VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 parataxis _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 again again ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stroke** | gerund | | a paper clip or needle | | | | with a magnet | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent clip=Theme with magnet=Instrument | | 2 | **line up** | present | Stroking | magnet's tiny magnets | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme magnet=Destination | | 3 | **make** | present | Stroking *not said here* | magnet | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | | 4 | **drop** | gerund | Stroking *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **heat** | gerund | Stroking *not said here* | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **jumble** | present | magnet | pole | | | again | | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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](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: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): R8-pos-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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