Self-driving cars and machines that run themselves, sentence 14
Driver assistance, like lane keeping and automatic emergency braking, uses cameras to help the driver, and many new cars can brake by themselves to avoid a crash; the driver must still pay attention.
Who acts: Driver assistance, many new cars, driver · What happens: use, help, brake, avoid, pay · To what, where: cameras, driver, crash, attention
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 (Driver assistance, many new cars, driver), 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 | Driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 assistance | compound |
| 2 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 uses | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 keeping | punct |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 keeping | case |
| 5 | lane | lane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 keeping | compound |
| 6 | keeping | keeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 assistance | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 emergency | cc |
| 8 | automatic | automatic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 braking | amod |
| 9 | emergency | emergency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 keeping | conj |
| 10 | braking | braking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 keeping | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 assistance | punct |
| 12 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | cameras | camera | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 uses | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 help | mark |
| 15 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 uses | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 driver | det |
| 17 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 help | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 brake | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 brake | cc |
| 20 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 cars | amod |
| 21 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 cars | amod |
| 22 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 brake | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 brake | aux |
| 24 | brake | brake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 uses | conj |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 themselves | case |
| 26 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 brake | obl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 avoid | mark |
| 28 | avoid | avoid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 brake | advcl |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 crash | det |
| 30 | crash | crash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 avoid | obj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 pay | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 driver | det |
| 33 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 pay | nsubj |
| 34 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 pay | aux |
| 35 | still | still | ADV | _ | 36 pay | advmod |
| 36 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 uses | conj |
| 37 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 pay | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 uses | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | Driver assistance like lane keeping and emergency and automatic braking | cameras | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camera=Patient | ||||
| 2 | help | to-infinitive | Driver assistance like lane keeping and emergency and automatic braking not said here | the driver | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent driver=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | brake | can | many new cars | by Cameras = camera | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | avoid | to-infinitive | many new cars not said here | a crash | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent crash=Location | ||||
| 5 | pay | must | the driver | attention | still | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset |
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:14.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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.
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