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title: The pull of a magnet gets weaker with distance. — Magnets · tree and pragmatics
description: The pull of a magnet gets weaker with distance. Who acts: pull. A sentence of the lesson «Magnets» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Magnets, sentence 10

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The pull of a magnet gets weaker with distance.

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**Who acts:** pull · **What happens:** get, pull · **To what, where:** magnet

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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 (pull), 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:10
# text = The pull of a magnet gets weaker with distance.
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pull	pull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	magnet	magnet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	weaker	weak	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	xcomp	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **get** | present | the pull of a magnet |  |  |  |  | weak *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **pull** |  |  | a magnet |  |  |  |  | nom pull «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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:081-magnets.lesson:10`.

**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): no change. **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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