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title: Magnetism passes through wood, paper, plastic and water, but a thick… — Magnets: pulling and pushing without touching · tree and pragmatics
description: Magnetism passes through wood, paper, plastic and water, but a thick sheet of iron soaks most of it up. Who acts: Magnetism, thick sheet. A sentence of the lesson «Magnets: pulling and pushing without touching» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Magnets: pulling and pushing without touching, sentence 11

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Magnetism passes through wood, paper, plastic and water, but a thick sheet of iron soaks most of it up.

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**Who acts:** Magnetism, thick sheet · **What happens:** pass, soak up · **To what, where:** wood, most

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Magnets: pulling and pushing without touching» of the physics 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 (Magnetism, thick sheet), 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:11
# text = Magnetism passes through wood, paper, plastic and water, but a thick sheet of iron soaks most of it up.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Magnetism	magnetism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	through	through	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	plastic	plastic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	sheet	sheet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	soaks	soak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:obj|HaikuPos=PRON:JJS:_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | present | Magnetism |  |  | wood and paper and plastic and water |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through wood=Location |
| 2 | **soak up** | present | a thick sheet of iron | most of magnet |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent most=Source |

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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:physics:029-magnets-pulling-and-pushing-without-touching.lesson:11`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

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

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