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title: Magnets attract iron, steel, nickel and cobalt, but not wood, plasti… — Forces — pushes, pulls, friction and magnets · tree and pragmatics
description: Magnets attract iron, steel, nickel and cobalt, but not wood, plastic, glass, gold, copper or aluminium, which drinks cans are made of. Who acts: Magnets, aluminium, wood. A sentence of the lesson «Forces — pushes, pulls, friction and magnets» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# Forces — pushes, pulls, friction and magnets, sentence 19

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Magnets attract iron, steel, nickel and cobalt, but not wood, plastic, glass, gold, copper or aluminium, which drinks cans are made of.

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**Who acts:** Magnets, aluminium, wood · **What happens:** attract, drink, make · **To what, where:** iron, cans

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Forces — pushes, pulls, friction and magnets» of the world 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, aluminium, wood), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:051-forces.lesson:19
# text = Magnets attract iron, steel, nickel and cobalt, but not wood, plastic, glass, gold, copper or aluminium, which drinks cans are made of.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 051-forces.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 ×3
1	Magnets	magnet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	attract	attract	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	nickel	nickel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	cobalt	cobalt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	plastic	plastic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	aluminium	aluminium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	drinks	drink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	cans	can	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:obj
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:acl
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **attract** | present | Magnets | iron and steel and nickel and cobalt but wood and plastic and glass and gold and copper or aluminium |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iron=Patient |
| 2 | **drink** | present | aluminium |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | present · passive | wood and plastic *not said here* | cans |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=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:world:051-forces.lesson:19`.

**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 ×3. **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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