Self-driving cars and machines that run themselves, sentence 16

A self-checkout scanner reads barcodes, and a scale checks the weight of each item, which is why it complains about an unexpected item in the bagging area.

Who acts: checkout scanner, scale, item · What happens: read, check, be, complain · To what, where: barcodes, weight

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 (checkout scanner, scale, item), 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	5 scanner	det
2	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 checkout	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 self	punct
4	checkout	checkout	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scanner	compound
5	scanner	scanner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reads	nsubj
6	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	barcodes	barcode	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 reads	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 checks	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 checks	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 scale	det
11	scale	scale	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 checks	nsubj
12	checks	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 reads	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 weight	det
14	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 checks	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 item	case
16	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	17 item	det
17	item	item	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 weight	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 why	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 why	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 why	cop
21	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	17 item	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 complains	nsubj
23	complains	complain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 why	advcl:relcl
24	about	about	ADP	_	27 item	case
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 item	det
26	unexpected	unexpected	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 item	amod
27	item	item	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 complains	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 area	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 area	det
30	bagging	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 area	compound
31	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 item	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 reads	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	read	present	a checkout scanner	barcodes		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barcode=Topic
2	check	present	a scale	the weight of each item		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Theme
3	is	present	each item		why property	tree rules
4	complain speech: other	present	scale		about a unexpected item in the bagging area	vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about item=Topic

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:16.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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.

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