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title: Two small strong magnets swallowed by a child can pull together thro… — Magnets: pulling and pushing without touching · tree and pragmatics
description: Two small strong magnets swallowed by a child can pull together through the walls of the gut and badly damage it; this is an emergency. Who acts: Two small strong magnets, this. A sentence of the lesson «Magnets: pulling and pushing without touching» of the physics course of Mova's primary school wi
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# Magnets: pulling and pushing without touching, sentence 12

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Two small strong magnets swallowed by a child can pull together through the walls of the gut and badly damage it; this is an emergency.

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**Who acts:** Two small strong magnets, this · **What happens:** swallow, pull together, damage, be · **To what, where:** Two small strong magnets, walls, magnet, emergency

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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 (Two small strong magnets, this), 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:12
# text = Two small strong magnets swallowed by a child can pull together through the walls of the gut and badly damage it; this is an emergency.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	magnets	magnet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
5	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	together	together	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	gut	gut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
20	damage	damage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=10:punct
23	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swallow** | participle |  | Two small strong magnets *not said here* |  |  |  | by a child | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pull together** | can | Two small strong magnets |  |  | the walls of the gut |  | together *property* | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **damage** | infinitive | Two small strong magnets *not said here* | magnet |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | present | this | a emergency |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:12`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×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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