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title: The Earth's magnetism comes from deep inside, where hot liquid iron… — Compasses and the magnetic Earth · tree and pragmatics
description: The Earth's magnetism comes from deep inside, where hot liquid iron swirls in the outer core like a giant dynamo. Who acts: magnetism, hot liquid iron. A sentence of the lesson «Compasses and the magnetic Earth» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Compasses and the magnetic Earth, sentence 1

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The Earth's magnetism comes from deep inside, where hot liquid iron swirls in the outer core like a giant dynamo.

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**Who acts:** magnetism, hot liquid iron · **What happens:** come, swirl · **To what, where:** outer core

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Compasses and the magnetic Earth» 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 (magnetism, hot liquid iron), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:030-compasses-and-the-magnetic-earth.lesson:1
# text = The Earth's magnetism comes from deep inside, where hot liquid iron swirls in the outer core like a giant dynamo.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 030-compasses-and-the-magnetic-earth.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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	magnetism	magnetism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
11	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	liquid	liquid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	swirls	swirl	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	core	core	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	dynamo	dynamo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **come** | present | the Earth's magnetism |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from inside=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **swirl** | present | hot liquid iron |  |  | the outer core |  | like a giant dynamo | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in core=Location |

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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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**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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