Robots at work and at home, sentence 12
Pavement delivery robots are small robots on wheels that use cameras and sensors to drive along pavements; in Milton Keynes six-wheeled ones deliver groceries, and people should give them space and never climb on them.
Who acts: delivery robots, wheels, wheeled ones, people · What happens: be, use, drive, wheel, deliver, give · To what, where: small robots, wheels, cameras, pavements, groceries, Milton
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 (delivery robots, wheels, wheeled ones, people), 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 | Pavement | pavement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 delivery | compound |
| 2 | delivery | delivery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 robots | compound |
| 3 | robots | robot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 robots | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 robots | cop |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 robots | amod |
| 6 | robots | robot | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 wheels | case |
| 8 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 robots | nmod |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 use | nsubj |
| 10 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 wheels | acl:relcl |
| 11 | cameras | camera | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 use | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sensors | cc |
| 13 | sensors | sensor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 cameras | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 drive | mark |
| 15 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 use | advcl |
| 16 | along | along | ADP | _ | 17 pavements | case |
| 17 | pavements | pavement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 drive | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 deliver | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Milton | case |
| 20 | Milton | Milton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 deliver | obl |
| 21 | Keynes | Keynes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Milton | flat |
| 22 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 wheeled | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 six | punct |
| 24 | wheeled | wheel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 ones | amod |
| 25 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 deliver | nsubj |
| 26 | deliver | deliver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 use | conj |
| 27 | groceries | grocery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 deliver | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 give | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 give | cc |
| 30 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 give | nsubj |
| 31 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 give | aux |
| 32 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 deliver | conj |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 give | iobj |
| 34 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 give | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 climb | cc |
| 36 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 37 climb | advmod |
| 37 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 give | conj |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 them | case |
| 39 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 climb | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 robots | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | delivery robots | small robots | wheels | tree rules | |||
| 2 | use | present | wheels | cameras and sensors | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camera=Patient | ||||
| 3 | drive | to-infinitive | wheels not said here | pavements | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along pavement=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | wheel | participle | vn drive-11.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | deliver | present | wheeled ones | groceries | Milton | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grocery=Patient | |||
| 6 | give | should | people | space | groceries = grocery | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient space=Theme | |||
| 7 | not climb | infinitive | people not said here | on people | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on they=Trajectory |
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:12.
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): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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