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title: Put a compass next to a fridge magnet or a steel table and it goes w… — Compasses and the magnetic Earth · tree and pragmatics
description: Put a compass next to a fridge magnet or a steel table and it goes wrong, because the close magnet pulls harder than the far-off Earth. Who acts: you, compass, close magnet. A sentence of the lesson «Compasses and the magnetic Earth» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency
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# Compasses and the magnetic Earth, sentence 3

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Put a compass next to a fridge magnet or a steel table and it goes wrong, because the close magnet pulls harder than the far-off Earth.

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**Who acts:** you, compass, close magnet · **What happens:** put, go, pull · **To what, where:** compass

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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 (you, compass, close magnet), 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:3
# text = Put a compass next to a fridge magnet or a steel table and it goes wrong, because the close magnet pulls harder than the far-off Earth.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	compass	compass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	next	next	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	fridge	fridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	magnet	magnet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
16	wrong	wrong	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
18	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	magnet	magnet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	pulls	pull	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
23	harder	hard	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
24	than	than	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:det
26	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	obl	_	_
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	_
28	off	off	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | imperative | you *not said here* | a compass |  |  |  | to a fridge magnet or a steel table; next *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent compass=Goal |
| 2 | **go** | present | compass |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pull** | present | the close magnet |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:030-compasses-and-the-magnetic-earth.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 ×2. **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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