Self-driving cars and machines that run themselves, sentence 13

Lidar is a spinning laser that measures the distance to everything by timing how long its light takes to come back, and it can build a 3D picture of a street.

Who acts: Lidar, spinning laser, light · What happens: spin, be, measure, time, take, come back · To what, where: spinning laser, distance, 3D picture

This is a sentence of the lesson «Self-driving cars and machines that run themselves» 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 (Lidar, spinning laser, light), 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	Lidar	lidar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 laser	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 laser	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 laser	det
4	spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 laser	amod
5	laser	laser	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 measures	nsubj
7	measures	measure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 laser	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 distance	det
9	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 measures	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 everything	case
11	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 distance	nmod
12	by	by	SCONJ	_	13 timing	mark
13	timing	time	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 measures	advcl
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 long	advmod
15	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 takes	advmod
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 light	nmod:poss
17	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 takes	nsubj
18	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 timing	ccomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 come	mark
20	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 takes	advcl
21	back	back	ADV	_	20 come	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 build	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 build	cc
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 build	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 build	aux
26	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 timing	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 picture	det
28	3D	3d	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi	29 picture	amod
29	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 build	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 street	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 street	det
32	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 picture	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 laser	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spin	gerund				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	Lidar	a spinning laser		tree rules
3	measure	present	a spinning laser	the distance	to everything	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme distance=Value
4	time	gerund	a spinning laser not said here			tree rules
5	take	present	lidar's light		long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	come back	to-infinitive	lidar's light not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	build	can	light	a 3D picture of a street		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material picture=Product
8	light		lidar			nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

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:040-self-driving-cars-and-machines-that-run-themselves.lesson:13.

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/40-self-driving-cars-and-machines-that-run-themselves/13/