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title: Some cities test cars that drive themselves using cameras, sensors a… — Voice assistants and recommendations · tree and pragmatics
description: Some cities test cars that drive themselves using cameras, sensors and AI; accidents have been reported and people argue about how safe they are. Who acts: cities, cars, people. A sentence of the lesson «Voice assistants and recommendations» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# Voice assistants and recommendations, sentence 11

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Some cities test cars that drive themselves using cameras, sensors and AI; accidents have been reported and people argue about how safe they are.

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**Who acts:** cities, cars, people · **What happens:** test, drive, use, report, argue, be · **To what, where:** cars, cameras, accidents

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Voice assistants and recommendations» 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 (cities, cars, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:017-voice-assistants-recommendations.lesson:11
# text = Some cities test cars that drive themselves using cameras, sensors and AI; accidents have been reported and people argue about how safe they are.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 017-voice-assistants-recommendations.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	test	test	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
4	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	drive	drive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obj	_	_
8	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	cameras	camera	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	sensors	sensor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	AI	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=SYM:SYM:_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	accidents	accident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	argue	argue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
22	about	about	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
24	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obl	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18: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 | **test** | present | some cities | cars |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Theme |
| 2 | **drive** | present | cars | cars *= car* |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme themselves=Trajectory |
| 3 | **use** | gerund | cars *not said here* | cameras and sensors and AI |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camera=Patient |
| 4 | **report** | present · perfect · passive |  | accidents |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | present | people |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |

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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:017-voice-assistants-recommendations.lesson:11`.

**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, 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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