Self-driving cars and machines that run themselves, sentence 17

A vending machine checks the money, some by the size, weight and metal of the coin, and then a spiral turns to push the snack forward; never tip or rock one, because it can fall on you.

Who acts: vending machine, spiral · What happens: check, turn, push, not tip, rock, fall · To what, where: money, snack, one

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 (vending machine, spiral), 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	3 machine	det
2	vending	vend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 machine	compound
3	machine	machine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 checks	nsubj
4	checks	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 money	det
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 checks	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 some	punct
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 checks	conj
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 size	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 size	det
11	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 some	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 weight	punct
13	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 size	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 metal	cc
15	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 size	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 coin	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 coin	det
18	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 metal	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 turns	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 turns	cc
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 turns	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 spiral	det
23	spiral	spiral	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 turns	nsubj
24	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 checks	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 push	mark
26	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 turns	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 snack	det
28	snack	snack	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 push	obj
29	forward	forward	ADV	_	26 push	advmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 tip	punct
31	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	32 tip	advmod
32	tip	tip	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 checks	parataxis
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 rock	cc
34	rock	rock	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	32 tip	conj
35	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 rock	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 fall	punct
37	because	because	SCONJ	_	40 fall	mark
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 fall	nsubj
39	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 fall	aux
40	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 tip	advcl
41	on	on	ADP	_	42 you	case
42	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 fall	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 checks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	check	present	a vending machine	the money			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
2	turn	present	a spiral		then		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	push	to-infinitive	a spiral not said here	the snack		forward property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snack=Theme
4	not tip	infinitive					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	rock	infinitive		one			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme
6	fall	can	spiral			on you	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on you=Location

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:17.

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, 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.

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