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title: A nearby magnet or piece of steel pulls the needle more strongly tha… — Compasses and the magnetic Earth · tree and pragmatics
description: A nearby magnet or piece of steel pulls the needle more strongly than the Earth and makes the compass wrong. Who acts: nearby magnet. 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 pragmatics of every clause
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# Compasses and the magnetic Earth, sentence 7

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A nearby magnet or piece of steel pulls the needle more strongly than the Earth and makes the compass wrong.

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**Who acts:** nearby magnet · **What happens:** pull, make · **To what, where:** needle, 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 (nearby 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:7
# text = A nearby magnet or piece of steel pulls the needle more strongly than the Earth and makes the compass wrong.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	nearby	nearby	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	magnet	magnet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	pulls	pull	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	needle	needle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
12	strongly	strongly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	compass	compass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | a nearby magnet or piece of steel | the needle |  |  |  | strongly *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent needle=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | present | a nearby magnet or piece of steel *not said here* | the compass |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset compass=Product |

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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:7`.

**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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