Self-driving cars and machines that run themselves, sentence 7
People build roads, power stations, cables, satellites and robots; energy is turned from one form to another to make them run; and every machine follows rules people wrote.
Who acts: People, roads, machine · What happens: build, turn, make, run, follow, write · To what, where: roads, energy, one form, rules
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 (People, roads, machine), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 build | nsubj |
| 2 | build | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 build | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 stations | punct |
| 5 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stations | compound |
| 6 | stations | station | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 roads | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cables | punct |
| 8 | cables | cable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 roads | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 satellites | punct |
| 10 | satellites | satellite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 roads | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 robots | cc |
| 12 | robots | robot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 roads | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 turned | punct |
| 14 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 turned | aux:pass |
| 16 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 build | parataxis |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 form | case |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 form | nummod |
| 19 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 turned | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 another | case |
| 21 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 turned | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 make | mark |
| 23 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 turned | advcl |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 make | obj |
| 25 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 make | xcomp |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 follows | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 follows | cc |
| 28 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 machine | det |
| 29 | machine | machine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 follows | nsubj |
| 30 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 build | conj |
| 31 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 follows | obj |
| 32 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 wrote | nsubj |
| 33 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 rules | acl:relcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 build | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | present | People | roads and power stations and cables and satellites and robots | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Product | ||||
| 2 | turn | present · passive | energy | one form | to another | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: subject=Theme from form=Source to another=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | roads = road | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | run | infinitive | roads = road not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | follow | present | every machine | rules | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme | ||||
| 6 | write | past | people | rules not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=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:7.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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