--- title: The Earth itself acts like a giant magnet, so a compass needle, whic… — Magnets · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: Earth, compass needle. A sentence of the lesson «Magnets» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/81-magnets/3/) [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/) / 3 # Magnets, sentence 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. **Who acts:** Earth, compass needle · **What happens:** act, be, turn, point, help, find · **To what, where:** small magnet, travellers 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 (Earth, compass needle), 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:3 # text = 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. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 2 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:appos 4 acts act VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 magnet magnet NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 compass compass NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 needle needle NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 magnet magnet NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 acl:relcl _ _ 20 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:acl 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 25 advmod _ _ 25 points point VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj 26 north north ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 south south ADV RB _ 26 conj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 31 travellers traveller NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 32 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **act** | present | the Earth Earth | | | | | like a giant magnet | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent like magnet=Attribute | | 2 | **is a** | present | a compass needle | a small magnet | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **turn** | to-infinitive | a compass needle *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **point** | present | a compass needle | | | | | always, north *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **help** | present | a compass needle *not said here* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **find** | infinitive | a compass needle *not said here* | travellers | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent traveller=Theme way=Attribute | 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. 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