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title: Maglev trains use strong magnets to float above the track and move a… — Magnets: pulling and pushing without touching · tree and pragmatics
description: Maglev trains use strong magnets to float above the track and move along it; with no wheels touching, there is almost no friction. Who acts: Maglev trains, wheels, friction. A sentence of the lesson «Magnets: pulling and pushing without touching» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with i
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# Magnets: pulling and pushing without touching, sentence 14

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Maglev trains use strong magnets to float above the track and move along it; with no wheels touching, there is almost no friction.

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**Who acts:** Maglev trains, wheels, friction · **What happens:** use, float, move, touch, be · **To what, where:** strong magnets, track, magnet

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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 (Maglev trains, wheels, friction), 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:14
# text = Maglev trains use strong magnets to float above the track and move along it; with no wheels touching, there is almost no friction.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Maglev	maglev	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	trains	train	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	magnets	magnet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	float	float	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	above	above	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	track	track	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc
12	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
13	along	along	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	22	expl	_	_
22	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
23	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
25	friction	friction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | Maglev trains | strong magnets |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magnet=Patient |
| 2 | **float** | to-infinitive | Maglev trains *not said here* |  |  | the track |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above track=Trajectory |
| 3 | **move** | infinitive | Maglev trains *not said here* |  |  | magnet |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme along it=Trajectory |
| 4 | **touch** | gerund | no wheels |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **be** | present | no friction |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:14`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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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