--- title: Magnets — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Magnets», a lesson of the world course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A magnet pulls things made of iron, steel, nickel and cobalt, even without touching them; most other materials, such as wood, plastic, glass, paper, copper and alum --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/81-magnets/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / Magnets # Magnets Lesson 81 of the world course of Mova's primary school: 15 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/81-magnets/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/81-magnets/0/) — A magnet pulls things made of iron, steel, nickel and cobalt, even without touching them; most other materials, such as wood, plastic, glass, paper, copper and aluminium, are not attracted. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/81-magnets/1/) — Every magnet has two ends called poles, a north pole and a south pole, where the pull is strongest; two unlike poles attract each other, and two like poles push each other apart. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/81-magnets/2/) — The force of a magnet can pass through paper, water, wood and even your hand, and it gets weaker the further away you go; the space around a magnet where it pulls is called its magnetic field. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/81-magnets/3/) — The Earth itself acts like a giant magnet, so a compass needle, which is a small magnet free to turn, always points north and south and helps travellers find their way. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/81-magnets/4/) — Try it: hold a paper clip under a table and move a magnet on top — the clip follows the magnet, because the magnetic force passes right through the wood. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/81-magnets/5/) — Magnets attract iron, steel, nickel and cobalt. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/81-magnets/6/) — Copper, aluminium, gold and silver are metals that magnets do not attract. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/81-magnets/8/) — Like poles repel each other and unlike poles attract. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/81-magnets/9/) — The pull of a magnet is strongest at its poles. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/81-magnets/10/) — The pull of a magnet gets weaker with distance. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/81-magnets/11/) — Magnetic force can pass through paper, wood, water and glass. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/81-magnets/12/) — The Earth behaves like a giant magnet. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/81-magnets/13/) — A compass needle is a small magnet that lines up north and south. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/81-magnets/14/) — If you cut a magnet in half, each piece becomes a magnet with its own two poles. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/81-magnets/15/) — Electromagnets are made with electricity and can be switched on and off. - ← previous: [Farms and where our food comes from](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/80-farms-and-our-food/) - next →: [Heat and temperature: how things warm and cool](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/82-heat-and-temperature/) - ↑ back to [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/)