--- title: A magnet pulls things made of iron, steel, nickel and cobalt, even w… — Magnets · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: magnet. A sentence of the lesson «Magnets» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dep --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/81-magnets/0/) [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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/81-magnets/) / 0 # Magnets, sentence 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. **Who acts:** magnet · **What happens:** pull, make, touch, not attract · **To what, where:** things, most other materials This is a sentence of the lesson «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 (magnet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:081-magnets.lesson:0 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 081-magnets.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 magnet magnet NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 steel steel NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 nickel nickel NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc 13 cobalt cobalt NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 even even ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 16 without without SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 17 touching touch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 22 amod _ _ 21 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 materials material NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 26 case _ _ 25 as as ADP IN _ 24 fixed _ _ 26 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:appos 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 plastic plastic NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 copper copper NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=26:cc 36 aluminium aluminium NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=34:conj 37 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 38 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux:pass _ _ 39 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 40 advmod _ _ 40 attracted attract VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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** | present | a magnet | things | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 2 | **make** | participle | | things *not said here* | | | | of iron and steel and nickel and cobalt | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **touch** | gerund | a magnet *not said here* | things *= thing* | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme | | 4 | **not** **attract** | present · passive | | most other materials such wood and plastic and glass and paper and copper and aluminium | | | | | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: subject=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:world:081-magnets.lesson:0`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×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: [Farms and where our food comes from, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/80-farms-and-our-food/16/) - next →: [Magnets, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/81-magnets/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/81-magnets/)