Self-driving cars and machines that run themselves, sentence 8
That is why the safety rules matter: never touch what is dangerous, and always tell an adult.
Who acts: That, safety rules · What happens: be, matter, not touch, tell · To what, where: adult · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (That, safety rules), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 why | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 why | cop |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rules | det |
| 5 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rules | compound |
| 6 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 matter | nsubj |
| 7 | matter | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 why | ccomp |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 touch | punct |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 touch | advmod |
| 10 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 matter | parataxis |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 dangerous | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 dangerous | cop |
| 13 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 touch | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tell | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 tell | cc |
| 16 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 17 tell | advmod |
| 17 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 touch | conj |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 adult | det |
| 19 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tell | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 why | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | matter | present | the safety rules | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | not touch | infinitive | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | dangerous property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | a adult | always property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
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:8.
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. 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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