Self-driving cars and machines that run themselves, sentence 20

Robot dogs are four-legged robots that use motors and balance sensors to walk on rough ground where wheels get stuck, and some inspect places too dangerous for people.

Who acts: Robot dogs, legged robots, wheels, some · What happens: be, use, walk, get, inspect · To what, where: legged robots, motors, rough ground, places

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 (Robot dogs, legged robots, wheels, some), 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	Robot	robot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dogs	compound
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 robots	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 robots	cop
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 legged	nummod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 four	punct
6	legged	leg	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 robots	amod
7	robots	robot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 use	nsubj
9	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 robots	acl:relcl
10	motors	motor	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 use	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sensors	cc
12	balance	balance	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sensors	compound
13	sensors	sensor	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 motors	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 walk	mark
15	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 use	advcl
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 ground	case
17	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 ground	amod
18	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 walk	obl
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 get	advmod
20	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 get	nsubj
21	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 ground	acl:relcl
22	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 get	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 inspect	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 inspect	cc
25	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 inspect	nsubj
26	inspect	inspect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 use	conj
27	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 inspect	obj
28	too	too	ADV	_	29 dangerous	advmod
29	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 places	amod
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 people	case
31	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 dangerous	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 robots	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Robot dogs	legged robots			tree rules
2	use	present	legged robots	motors and balance sensors			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent motor=Patient
3	walk	to-infinitive	legged robots not said here		rough ground		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Trajectory
4	get	present	wheels			stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	inspect	present	some	places			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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:20.

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, R8-pos-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/20/