Self-driving cars and machines that run themselves, sentence 2

Most cars are not fully self-driving: they have helpers that keep the car in its lane or brake by themselves before a crash, while the driver stays in charge.

Who acts: Most cars, radar, helpers, driver · What happens: not be, have, keep, stay · To what, where: helpers, car, lane, charge

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 (Most cars, radar, helpers, 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 cars	amod
2	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 driving	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 driving	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 driving	advmod
5	fully	fully	ADV	_	8 driving	advmod
6	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 driving	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 self	punct
8	driving	drive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 have	nsubj
11	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 driving	parataxis
12	helpers	helper	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 have	obj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 keep	nsubj
14	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 helpers	acl:relcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 car	det
16	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 keep	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 lane	case
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 lane	nmod:poss
19	lane	lane	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 keep	obl
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 brake	cc
21	brake	brake	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lane	conj
22	by	by	ADP	_	23 themselves	case
23	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 keep	obl
24	before	before	ADP	_	26 crash	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 crash	det
26	crash	crash	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 keep	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 stays	punct
28	while	while	SCONJ	_	31 stays	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 driver	det
30	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 stays	nsubj
31	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 have	advcl
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 charge	case
33	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 stays	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 driving	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Most cars				drive, fully property	tree rules
2	have	present	radar	helpers				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helper=Patient
3	keep	present	helpers	the car	car's lane or brake	before a crash	by radar	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent car=Theme in lane=Location
4	stay	present	the driver		charge			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in charge=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:2.

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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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/2/