--- title: Iron filings sprinkled around a magnet line up and show its invisibl… — Magnets: pulling and pushing without touching · tree and pragmatics description: Iron filings sprinkled around a magnet line up and show its invisible magnetic field; the lines bunch up at the poles, where the pull is strongest. Who acts: Iron filings, lines, pull. 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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 filings, lines, 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:8 # text = Iron filings sprinkled around a magnet line up and show its invisible magnetic field; the lines bunch up at the poles, where the pull is strongest. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 filings filing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 3 sprinkled sprinkle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 around around ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 magnet magnet NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 line line VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 12 invisible invisible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 magnetic magnetic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 lines line NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 bunch bunch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 19 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 poles pole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 28 advmod _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 pull pull NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 strongest strong ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 22 acl:relcl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **sprinkle** | participle | | Iron filings *not said here* | | a magnet | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme around magnet=Destination | | 2 | **line up** | present | Iron filings | | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **show** | present | Iron filings *not said here* | magnet's invisible magnetic field | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent field=Recipient | | 4 | **bunch up** | present | the lines | | | the poles | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | the pull | | | | | strong *property* | tree rules | 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:8`. **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): 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. 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