Self-driving cars and machines that run themselves, sentence 15

Automatic doors use sensors, some with a radar beam and some with infrared light, to detect people coming, and motors open them; never play in them, because they can close on you.

Who acts: Automatic doors, people, motors, door · What happens: use, detect, come, open, not play, close · To what, where: sensors, people

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 (Automatic doors, people, motors, door), 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	Automatic	automatic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 doors	amod
2	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 use	nsubj
3	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sensors	sensor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 use	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 some	punct
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 sensors	appos
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 beam	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 beam	det
9	radar	radar	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 beam	compound
10	beam	beam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 some	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 light	cc
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 light	det
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 light	case
14	infrared	infrared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 light	amod
15	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 beam	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 detect	punct
17	to	to	PART	_	18 detect	mark
18	detect	detect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 use	advcl
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 detect	obj
20	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 people	acl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 open	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 open	cc
23	motors	motor	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 open	nsubj
24	open	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 use	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 open	obj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 play	punct
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	28 play	advmod
28	play	play	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 use	parataxis
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 play	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 close	punct
32	because	because	SCONJ	_	35 close	mark
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 close	nsubj
34	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 close	aux
35	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 play	advcl
36	on	on	ADP	_	37 you	case
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 close	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 use	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	use	present	Automatic doors	sensors		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sensor=Patient
2	detect	to-infinitive	Automatic doors not said here	people		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus
3	come	gerund	people not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	open	present	motors	People		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme
5	not play	infinitive			in motors = motor	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	close	can	door		on you	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:040-self-driving-cars-and-machines-that-run-themselves.lesson:15.

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 ×1, R7-rel-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.

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/15/