--- title: In a sorting plant magnets pull out steel, a spinning magnet pushes… — Bottles, cans and recycling · tree and pragmatics description: In a sorting plant magnets pull out steel, a spinning magnet pushes aluminium cans off the belt even though aluminium is not magnetic, and air jets with cameras pick out the plastics. Who acts: magnets, spinning magnet, aluminium, air jets. A sentence of the lesson «Bottles, cans and recycling» of t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/4-bottles-cans-and-recycling/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/) / [Bottles, cans and recycling](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/4-bottles-cans-and-recycling/) / 15 # Bottles, cans and recycling, sentence 15 In a sorting plant magnets pull out steel, a spinning magnet pushes aluminium cans off the belt even though aluminium is not magnetic, and air jets with cameras pick out the plastics. **Who acts:** magnets, spinning magnet, aluminium, air jets · **What happens:** pull out, spin, push, not be, pick out · **To what, where:** steel, sorting plant, aluminium cans, belt, plastics This is a sentence of the lesson «Bottles, cans and recycling» of the technology 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 (magnets, spinning magnet, aluminium, air jets), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:004-bottles-cans-and-recycling.lesson:15 # text = In a sorting plant magnets pull out steel, a spinning magnet pushes aluminium cans off the belt even though aluminium is not magnetic, and air jets with cameras pick out the plastics. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 004-bottles-cans-and-recycling.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 sorting sorting NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 5 magnets magnet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 pull pull VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 out out ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 steel steel NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 spinning spin VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:amod 12 magnet magnet NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 14 aluminium aluminium NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 cans can NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 off off ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 belt belt NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 19 even even ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 20 though though SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 21 aluminium aluminium NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 magnetic magnetic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 advcl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 27 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 jets jet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 cameras camera NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 31 pick pick VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 32 out out ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 plastics plastic NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pull out** | present | magnets | steel | | a sorting plant | | | tree rules | | 2 | **spin** | gerund | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **push** | present | a spinning magnet | aluminium cans | | the belt | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent can=Theme off belt=Trajectory | | 4 | **not** **is** | present | aluminium | | | | | magnetic *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **pick out** | present | air jets with cameras | the plastics | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plastic=Patient | 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:technology:004-bottles-cans-and-recycling.lesson:15`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Bottles, cans and recycling, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/4-bottles-cans-and-recycling/14/) - next →: [Bottles, cans and recycling, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/4-bottles-cans-and-recycling/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/4-bottles-cans-and-recycling/)