--- title: A robot vacuum feels a chair leg with its bumper, its program says t… — Robots at work and at home · tree and pragmatics description: A robot vacuum feels a chair leg with its bumper, its program says turn, and its wheels turn; that sense, decide, move loop is the heart of every robot, from a toy to a Mars rover. Who acts: robot vacuum, program, wheels, sense loop. 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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, program, wheels, sense loop), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:039-robots-at-work-and-at-home.lesson:1 # text = A robot vacuum feels a chair leg with its bumper, its program says turn, and its wheels turn; that sense, decide, move loop is the heart of every robot, from a toy to a Mars rover. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 039-robots-at-work-and-at-home.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 robot robot NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 vacuum vacuum NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 chair chair NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 bumper bumper NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 program program NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 15 turn turn NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 wheels wheel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 22 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 det _ _ 23 sense sense NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 25 decide decide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 flat _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 27 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 flat _ _ 28 loop loop NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 34 det _ _ 34 robot robot NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 from from ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 toy toy NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 Mars Mars PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 rover rover NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **feel** | present | a robot vacuum | a chair leg | | | | with vacuum's bumper | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | vacuum's program | turn | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent turn=Topic | | 3 | **turn** | present | vacuum's wheels | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **decide** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **move** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is a** | present | that sense loop | the heart | | | | of every robot from a toy to a Mars rover | tree rules | | 7 | **program** | | vacuum | | | | | | nom program «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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](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:technology:039-robots-at-work-and-at-home.lesson:1`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [Satellites and GPS, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/38-satellites-and-gps/19/) - next →: [Robots at work and at home, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/39-robots-at-work-and-at-home/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/39-robots-at-work-and-at-home/)