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title: A magnet is made of countless tiny magnets lined up together, so a m… — Magnets: pulling and pushing without touching · tree and pragmatics
description: A magnet is made of countless tiny magnets lined up together, so a magnet cut in half becomes two magnets, each with both poles. Who acts: magnet. 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 
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# Magnets: pulling and pushing without touching, sentence 9

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A magnet is made of countless tiny magnets lined up together, so a magnet cut in half becomes two magnets, each with both poles.

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**Who acts:** magnet · **What happens:** make, line up, cut, become · **To what, where:** magnet, countless tiny magnets, half, two magnets

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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 (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:9
# text = A magnet is made of countless tiny magnets lined up together, so a magnet cut in half becomes two magnets, each with both poles.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	magnet	magnet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	countless	countless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	magnets	magnet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	lined	line	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	together	together	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	magnet	magnet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	16	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:nmod
19	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	magnets	magnet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	xcomp	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	appos	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	poles	pole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **make** | present · passive |  | a magnet |  |  |  | of countless tiny magnets | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **line up** | participle |  | countless tiny magnets *not said here* |  |  |  | together *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cut** | participle |  | a magnet *not said here* |  | half |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **become** | present | a magnet | two magnets |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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:9`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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