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title: If you cut a magnet in half, each piece becomes a magnet with its ow… — Magnets · tree and pragmatics
description: If you cut a magnet in half, each piece becomes a magnet with its own two poles. Who acts: you, piece. 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 14

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If you cut a magnet in half, each piece becomes a magnet with its own two poles.

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**Who acts:** you, piece · **What happens:** cut, become · **To what, where:** magnet, half

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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 (you, piece), 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:14
# text = If you cut a magnet in half, each piece becomes a magnet with its own two poles.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cut	cut	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	magnet	magnet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	3	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	magnet	magnet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obj
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
16	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	poles	pole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **cut** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | a magnet |  | half |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magnet=Product |
| 2 | **become** | present | each piece | a magnet with magnet's own two poles |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:14`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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