--- title: Only a few metals are pulled strongly, mainly iron, steel, nickel an… — Magnets: pulling and pushing without touching · tree and pragmatics description: Only a few metals are pulled strongly, mainly iron, steel, nickel and cobalt, which is why a magnet grabs a steel paper clip but ignores an aluminium can. Who acts: iron, 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 (iron, 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:2 # text = Only a few metals are pulled strongly, mainly iron, steel, nickel and cobalt, which is why a magnet grabs a steel paper clip but ignores an aluminium can. # 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 ×1 1 Only only ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 metals metal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 pulled pull VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 strongly strongly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 mainly mainly ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 steel steel NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 nickel nickel NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 cobalt cobalt NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 acl:relcl _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:det 22 magnet magnet NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 grabs grab VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 steel steel NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 clip clip NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 ignores ignore VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 30 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 aluminium aluminium NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 can can NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **pull** | present · passive | | a few metals | | | | iron and steel and nickel and cobalt *obl*; strongly *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | iron and steel and nickel and cobalt | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **grab** | present | a magnet | a paper clip | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clip=Theme | | 4 | **ignore** | present | a magnet *not said here* | a aluminium can | | | | | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent can=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:2`. **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 ×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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