Self-driving cars and machines that run themselves, sentence 19
A smart home has lights, heating and locks connected to the internet that can be controlled by phone or voice, and a smart thermostat can learn when people are home; the accounts must be kept secure.
Who acts: smart home, phone, smart thermostat, people · What happens: have, connect, control, learn, be, keep · To what, where: lights, internet, accounts
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 (smart home, phone, smart thermostat, people), 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 home | det |
| 2 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 home | amod |
| 3 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 has | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 heating | punct |
| 7 | heating | heating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lights | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 locks | cc |
| 9 | locks | lock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lights | conj |
| 10 | connected | connect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 lights | acl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 internet | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 internet | det |
| 13 | internet | internet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 connected | obl |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 controlled | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 controlled | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 controlled | aux:pass |
| 17 | controlled | control | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 internet | acl:relcl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 phone | case |
| 19 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 controlled | obl |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 voice | cc |
| 21 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 phone | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 learn | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 learn | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 thermostat | det |
| 25 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 thermostat | amod |
| 26 | thermostat | thermostat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 learn | nsubj |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 learn | aux |
| 28 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 has | conj |
| 29 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 home | advmod |
| 30 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 home | nsubj |
| 31 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 home | cop |
| 32 | home | home | ADV | _ | 28 learn | advcl |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 kept | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 accounts | det |
| 35 | accounts | account | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 kept | aux |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 kept | aux:pass |
| 38 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 has | parataxis |
| 39 | secure | secure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 kept | xcomp |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a smart home | lights and heating and locks | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Patient | ||||
| 2 | connect | participle | lights and heating and locks not said here | to the internet | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient to internet=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | control | can · passive | phone or voice | the internet | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | learn | can | a smart thermostat | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | present | people | home property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | keep | must · passive | the accounts | secure property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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:19.
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 ×2, R8-pos-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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