Self-driving cars and machines that run themselves, sentence 9
Machines take over boring, repeating jobs, and people design, build, fix and run them, and new jobs keep appearing.
Who acts: Machines, boring jobs, people, new jobs · What happens: take over, repeat, design, build, fix, run · To what, where: boring jobs, People
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, boring jobs, people, new jobs), 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 | 2 take | nsubj |
| 2 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | over | over | ADV | _ | 4 boring | compound:prt |
| 4 | boring | boring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 jobs | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 repeating | punct |
| 6 | repeating | repeat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 jobs | acl |
| 7 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 take | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 design | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 design | cc |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 design | nsubj |
| 11 | design | design | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 take | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 build | punct |
| 13 | build | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 design | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fix | punct |
| 15 | fix | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 design | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 run | cc |
| 17 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 design | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 run | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 keep | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 keep | cc |
| 21 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 jobs | amod |
| 22 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 keep | nsubj |
| 23 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 design | conj |
| 24 | appearing | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 keep | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 take | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take over | present | Machines | boring jobs | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Theme | ||||
| 2 | repeat | gerund | boring jobs not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | design | present | people | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | build | present | people not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | fix | present | people not said here | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | run | present | people not said here | People | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | keep | present | new jobs | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | appear | gerund | new jobs not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:9.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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.
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/9/