--- title: An electric motor spins because electricity in a coil of wire makes… — Magnets: pulling and pushing without touching · tree and pragmatics description: An electric motor spins because electricity in a coil of wire makes it a magnet that is pushed and pulled by other magnets. Who acts: electric motor, electricity. 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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 (electric motor, electricity), 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:15 # text = An electric motor spins because electricity in a coil of wire makes it a magnet that is pushed and pulled by other magnets. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 2 electric electric ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:amod 3 motor motor NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound 4 spins spin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 because because SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 6 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 coil coil NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 wire wire NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 magnet magnet NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 xcomp _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 pushed push VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 pulled pull VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 conj _ _ 21 by by ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 magnets magnet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl:agent _ _ 24 . . 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 | **spin** | present | a electric motor | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **make** | present | electricity in a coil of wire | motor | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | | 3 | **push** | present · passive | | a magnet | | | | | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **pull** | participle | | | | | | | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:15`. **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 ×2, 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. 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