--- title: Try it: hold a paper clip under a table and move a magnet on top — t… — Magnets · tree and pragmatics description: Try it: hold a paper clip under a table and move a magnet on top — the clip follows the magnet, because the magnetic force passes right through the wood. Who acts: you, clip, magnetic force. A sentence of the lesson «Magnets» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/81-magnets/4/) [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/) / 4 # Magnets, sentence 4 Try it: hold a paper clip under a table and move a magnet on top — the clip follows the magnet, because the magnetic force passes right through the wood. **Who acts:** you, clip, magnetic force · **What happens:** try, hold, move, follow, pass · **To what, where:** magnet, paper clip, table, top, wood 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, clip, magnetic force), 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:4 # text = Try it: hold a paper clip under a table and move a magnet on top — the clip follows the magnet, because the magnetic force passes right through the wood. # 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 Try try VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 4 hold hold VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 clip clip NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 under under ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 move move VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 magnet magnet NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 — - PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 clip clip NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 follows follow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 magnet magnet NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 because because SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 magnetic magnetic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 force force NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 passes pass VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 29 right right ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 through through ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | imperative | you *not said here* | magnet | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 2 | **hold** | infinitive | | a paper clip | | a table | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent clip=Theme under table=Location | | 3 | **move** | infinitive | | a magnet | | top | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent magnet=Theme | | 4 | **follow** | present | the clip | the magnet | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magnet=Theme | | 5 | **pass** | present | the magnetic force | | | the wood | | right *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through wood=Location | 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:4`. **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/). - ← previous: [Magnets, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/81-magnets/3/) - next →: [Magnets, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/81-magnets/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/81-magnets/)