Robots at work and at home, sentence 10
A robot lawnmower stays inside a hidden wire or uses GPS and cuts a little grass every day; keep children and pets away, never pick it up while it is running, and run it in the day, because it can hurt hedgehogs at night.
Who acts: robot lawnmower, lawnmower · What happens: stay, use, cut, keep, not pick up, run · To what, where: hidden wire, GPS, little grass, children, grass, lawnmower
This is a sentence of the lesson «Robots at work and at home» of the technology 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 (robot lawnmower, lawnmower), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 lawnmower | det |
| 2 | robot | robot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lawnmower | compound |
| 3 | lawnmower | lawnmower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stays | nsubj |
| 4 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 8 wire | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 wire | det |
| 7 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wire | amod |
| 8 | wire | wire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stays | obl |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 uses | cc |
| 10 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 stays | conj |
| 11 | GPS | GPS | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 uses | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cuts | cc |
| 13 | cuts | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 stays | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 grass | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 grass | amod |
| 16 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cuts | obj |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 day | det |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cuts | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 keep | punct |
| 20 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 cuts | parataxis |
| 21 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 keep | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 pets | cc |
| 23 | pets | pet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 children | conj |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 keep | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 pick | punct |
| 26 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 27 pick | advmod |
| 27 | pick | pick | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 keep | conj |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 pick | obj |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 pick | compound:prt |
| 30 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 33 running | mark |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 running | nsubj |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 running | aux |
| 33 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 pick | advcl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 run | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 run | cc |
| 36 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 cuts | parataxis |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 run | obj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 day | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 day | det |
| 40 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 run | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 hurt | punct |
| 42 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 45 hurt | mark |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 hurt | nsubj |
| 44 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 hurt | aux |
| 45 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 run | advcl |
| 46 | hedgehogs | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 hurt | obj |
| 47 | at | at | ADP | _ | 48 night | case |
| 48 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 hurt | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stays | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | present | a robot lawnmower | a hidden wire | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside wire=Location | ||||
| 2 | use | present | a robot lawnmower not said here | GPS | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gps=Patient | ||||
| 3 | cut | present | a robot lawnmower not said here | a little grass | day | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset grass=Product | |||
| 4 | keep | infinitive | children and pets | away property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not pick up | infinitive | grass | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||||
| 6 | run | present · progressive | lawnmower | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | run | infinitive | lawnmower | day | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory | ||||
| 8 | hurt | can | lawnmower | hedgehogs | night | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hedgehog=Patient |
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, 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:technology:039-robots-at-work-and-at-home.lesson:10.
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.
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