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title: Magnets attract iron, steel, nickel and cobalt. — Magnets · tree and pragmatics
description: Magnets attract iron, steel, nickel and cobalt. Who acts: Magnets. 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 5

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Magnets attract iron, steel, nickel and cobalt.

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**Who acts:** Magnets · **What happens:** attract · **To what, where:** iron

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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 (Magnets), 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:5
# text = Magnets attract iron, steel, nickel and cobalt.
# 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	Magnets	magnet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	attract	attract	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	nickel	nickel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	cobalt	cobalt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **attract** | present | Magnets | iron and steel and nickel and cobalt |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iron=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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**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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