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title: Big magnets pull out steel cans, while aluminium, which is not magne… — Recycling, waste and plastic · tree and pragmatics
description: Big magnets pull out steel cans, while aluminium, which is not magnetic, is separated in other ways. Who acts: Big magnets, aluminium. A sentence of the lesson «Recycling, waste and plastic» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Recycling, waste and plastic, sentence 8

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Big magnets pull out steel cans, while aluminium, which is not magnetic, is separated in other ways.

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**Who acts:** Big magnets, aluminium · **What happens:** pull out, not be, separate · **To what, where:** steel cans, aluminium, other ways

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Recycling, waste and plastic» 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 (Big magnets, aluminium), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:088-recycling-waste-plastic.lesson:8
# text = Big magnets pull out steel cans, while aluminium, which is not magnetic, is separated in other ways.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 088-recycling-waste-plastic.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	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	magnets	magnet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pull	pull	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	cans	can	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
9	aluminium	aluminium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	magnetic	magnetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	acl:relcl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	separated	separate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **pull out** | present | Big magnets | steel cans |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | aluminium |  |  |  |  | magnetic *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **separate** | present · passive |  | aluminium |  |  |  | in other ways *goal* | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme in way=Goal |

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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:088-recycling-waste-plastic.lesson:8`.

**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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