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title: Inside a magnet, countless tiny magnets are lined up the same way; c… — Magnets: pulling and pushing without touching · tree and pragmatics
description: Inside a magnet, countless tiny magnets are lined up the same way; cut it in half and each half is a whole magnet with its own north and south. Who acts: half. A sentence of the lesson «Magnets: pulling and pushing without touching» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency 
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# Magnets: pulling and pushing without touching, sentence 3

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Inside a magnet, countless tiny magnets are lined up the same way; cut it in half and each half is a whole magnet with its own north and south.

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**Who acts:** half · **What happens:** line up, cut, be · **To what, where:** countless tiny magnets, magnet, half, whole 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 (half), 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:3
# text = Inside a magnet, countless tiny magnets are lined up the same way; cut it in half and each half is a whole magnet with its own north and south.
# 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	magnet	magnet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	countless	countless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	magnets	magnet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	lined	line	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	15	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	25	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	magnet	magnet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nmod:poss
28	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nmod
29	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:conj|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **line up** | present · passive |  | countless tiny magnets |  | a magnet |  | the same way *obl* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
| 2 | **cut** | infinitive |  | magnet |  | half |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 3 | **is a** | present | each half | a whole magnet |  |  |  | magnet's own north and south *nmod* | 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:3`.

**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 ×3, R7-rel-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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