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title: Some farm tractors steer themselves using GPS (signals from satellit… — Counting the AI in one ordinary day · tree and pragmatics
description: Some farm tractors steer themselves using GPS (signals from satellites that tell a machine exactly where it is), and farms use AI to help plant, spray and check crops. Who acts: farm tractors, signals, machine, farms. A sentence of the lesson «Counting the AI in one ordinary day» of the ai course of
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# Counting the AI in one ordinary day, sentence 10

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Some farm tractors steer themselves using GPS (signals from satellites that tell a machine exactly where it is), and farms use AI to help plant, spray and check crops.

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**Who acts:** farm tractors, signals, machine, farms · **What happens:** steer, use, tell, be, help, spray · **To what, where:** tractors, GPS, machine, AI, plant, crops · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Counting the AI in one ordinary day» 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 (farm tractors, signals, machine, farms), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:019-ai-in-one-ordinary-day.lesson:10
# text = Some farm tractors steer themselves using GPS (signals from satellites that tell a machine exactly where it is), and farms use AI to help plant, spray and check crops.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 019-ai-in-one-ordinary-day.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	tractors	tractor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	steer	steer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	GPS	GPS	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
9	signals	signal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	satellites	satellite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:acl:relcl
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	machine	machine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	farms	farm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	AI	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
28	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	spray	spray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:xcomp
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
33	crops	crop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **steer** | present | some farm tractors | tractors *= tractor* |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme |
| 2 | **use** | gerund | some farm tractors *not said here* | GPS |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gps=Patient |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | signals from satellites | a machine |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent machine=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** | present | machine |  |  |  |  | exactly, where *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **use** | present | farms | AI |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ai=Patient |
| 6 | **help** | to-infinitive | farms *not said here* | plant |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Beneficiary |
| 7 | **spray** | infinitive | farms *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **check** | infinitive | farms *not said here* | crops |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=Theme |

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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:019-ai-in-one-ordinary-day.lesson:10`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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