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title: A robot vacuum cleaner uses sensors and a map to do one job; it does… — What is AI? Pattern-guessers, not people · tree and pragmatics
description: A robot vacuum cleaner uses sensors and a map to do one job; it does not understand the world the way a dog does. Who acts: robot vacuum cleaner, cleaner, dog. A sentence of the lesson «What is AI? Pattern-guessers, not people» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and t
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# What is AI? Pattern-guessers, not people, sentence 15

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A robot vacuum cleaner uses sensors and a map to do one job; it does not understand the world the way a dog does.

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**Who acts:** robot vacuum cleaner, cleaner, dog · **What happens:** use, do, not understand · **To what, where:** sensors, one job, world, way

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What is AI? Pattern-guessers, not people» of the ai 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 vacuum cleaner, cleaner, dog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:001-what-is-ai.lesson:15
# text = A robot vacuum cleaner uses sensors and a map to do one job; it does not understand the world the way a dog does.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 001-what-is-ai.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	robot	robot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:compound
3	vacuum	vacuum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	cleaner	cleaner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	sensors	sensor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | a robot vacuum cleaner | sensors and a map |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sensor=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | a robot vacuum cleaner *not said here* | one job |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality |
| 3 | **not** **understand** | present · do-support | cleaner | the world |  |  |  | the way *obl:unmarked* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus |
| 4 | **do** | present | a dog | the way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:ai:001-what-is-ai.lesson:15`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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