--- title: In a sorting plant, magnets pull out steel, a spinning magnet pushes… — Olympiad: machines at home and in the factory ★★★ · 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. 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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:042-olympiad-machines-at-home-and-in-the-factory.lesson:9 # 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 = 042-olympiad-machines-at-home-and-in-the-factory.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 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 7 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 magnets magnet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 pull pull VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 out out ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 steel steel NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 spinning spinning NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 magnet magnet NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 15 aluminium aluminium NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 cans can NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 off off ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 belt belt NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 20 even even ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 21 though though SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 aluminium aluminium NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 magnetic magnetic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 advcl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 28 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 jets jet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 cameras camera NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 32 pick pick VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 33 out out ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 plastics plastic NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **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 | | 3 | **not** **is** | present | aluminium | | | | | magnetic *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **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:042-olympiad-machines-at-home-and-in-the-factory.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. 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