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title: The force of a magnet can pass through paper, water, wood and even y… — Magnets · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: force, magnet, you. A sentence of the lesson «Magnets» of the world course of Mova's primary scho
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# Magnets, sentence 2

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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.

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**Who acts:** force, magnet, you · **What happens:** pass, get, go, pull, call · **To what, where:** wood, paper, space · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (force, magnet, you), 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:2
# text = 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.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	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	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	even	even	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
22	weaker	weak	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	xcomp	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	further	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
25	away	away	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	around	around	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	magnet	magnet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	36	advmod	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	pulls	pull	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
39	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
40	magnetic	magnetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **pass** | can | the force of a magnet | wood and your hand |  | paper and water |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through paper=Location |
| 2 | **get** | present | magnet |  |  |  |  | far, weak *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **go** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **pull** | present | magnet |  |  |  |  |  | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **call** | present · passive |  | the space around a magnet |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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**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.

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