Self-driving cars and machines that run themselves, sentence 4
Machines that run themselves are all around you: the shop door that slides open as you walk up, the self-checkout that weighs your apples, the vending machine that checks your coin, the cash machine that counts out notes.
Who acts: Machines, shop door, you, self checkout, vending machine, cash machine · What happens: run, slide, walk up, weigh, check, count out · To what, where: Machines, apples, coin, notes
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 (Machines, shop door, you, self checkout), 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 | Machines | machine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 around | nsubj |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 run | nsubj |
| 3 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Machines | acl:relcl |
| 4 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 run | obj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 around | cop |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 around | advmod |
| 7 | around | around | ADP | _ | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 around | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 door | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 door | det |
| 11 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 door | compound |
| 12 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 you | appos |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 slides | nsubj |
| 14 | slides | slide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 door | acl:relcl |
| 15 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 slides | xcomp |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 walk | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 walk | nsubj |
| 18 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 slides | advcl |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 walk | compound:prt |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 checkout | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 checkout | det |
| 22 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 checkout | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 self | punct |
| 24 | checkout | checkout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 door | appos |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 weighs | nsubj |
| 26 | weighs | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 checkout | acl:relcl |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 apples | nmod:poss |
| 28 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 weighs | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 machine | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 machine | det |
| 31 | vending | vend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 machine | compound |
| 32 | machine | machine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 weighs | obj |
| 33 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 checks | nsubj |
| 34 | checks | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 machine | acl:relcl |
| 35 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 coin | nmod:poss |
| 36 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 checks | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 machine | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 machine | det |
| 39 | cash | cash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 machine | compound |
| 40 | machine | machine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 door | conj |
| 41 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 counts | nsubj |
| 42 | counts | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 machine | acl:relcl |
| 43 | out | out | ADP | _ | 42 counts | compound:prt |
| 44 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 counts | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 you | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | present | Machines | Machines = machine | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme themselves=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | slide | present | the shop door and the cash machine | open property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | walk up | present | you | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | weigh | present | the self checkout | your apples | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | check | present | the vending machine | your coin | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Theme | ||||
| 6 | count out | present | the cash machine | notes | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Theme | ||||
| 7 | coin | your | nom coin «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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:4.
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, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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