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title: Magnets pull iron and steel without touching them, and the pull fade… — Magnets: pulling and pushing without touching · tree and pragmatics
description: Magnets pull iron and steel without touching them, and the pull fades quickly with distance. Who acts: Magnets, pull. A sentence of the lesson «Magnets: pulling and pushing without touching» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Magnets: pulling and pushing without touching, sentence 5

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Magnets pull iron and steel without touching them, and the pull fades quickly with distance.

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**Who acts:** Magnets, pull · **What happens:** pull, touch, fade · **To what, where:** iron

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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 (Magnets, pull), 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:5
# text = Magnets pull iron and steel without touching them, and the pull fades quickly with distance.
# 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): no change
1	Magnets	magnet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	pull	pull	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	pull	pull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	fades	fade	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **pull** | present | Magnets | iron and steel |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iron=Theme |
| 2 | **touch** | gerund | Magnets *not said here* | iron |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **fade** | present | the pull |  |  |  |  | with distance; quickly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with distance=Instrument |

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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:5`.

**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): no change. **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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