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title: A robot lawnmower stays inside a hidden wire or uses GPS and cuts a… — Robots at work and at home · tree and pragmatics
description: A robot lawnmower stays inside a hidden wire or uses GPS and cuts a little grass every day; keep children and pets away, never pick it up while it is running, and run it in the day, because it can hurt hedgehogs at night. Who acts: robot lawnmower, lawnmower. A sentence of the lesson «Robots at work
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# Robots at work and at home, sentence 10

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A robot lawnmower stays inside a hidden wire or uses GPS and cuts a little grass every day; keep children and pets away, never pick it up while it is running, and run it in the day, because it can hurt hedgehogs at night.

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**Who acts:** robot lawnmower, lawnmower · **What happens:** stay, use, cut, keep, not pick up, run · **To what, where:** hidden wire, GPS, little grass, children, grass, lawnmower

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Robots at work and at home» 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 (robot lawnmower, lawnmower), 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:10
# text = A robot lawnmower stays inside a hidden wire or uses GPS and cuts a little grass every day; keep children and pets away, never pick it up while it is running, and run it in the day, because it can hurt hedgehogs at night.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	robot	robot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	lawnmower	lawnmower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	wire	wire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	GPS	GPS	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	cuts	cut	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
20	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
21	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	pets	pet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	away	away	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	pick	pick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
30	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	run	run	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
44	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	advcl	_	_
46	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obj	_	_
47	at	at	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
49	.	.	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 | **stay** | present | a robot lawnmower |  |  | a hidden wire |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside wire=Location |
| 2 | **use** | present | a robot lawnmower *not said here* | GPS |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gps=Patient |
| 3 | **cut** | present | a robot lawnmower *not said here* | a little grass |  |  | day |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset grass=Product |
| 4 | **keep** | infinitive |  | children and pets |  |  |  | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **pick up** | infinitive |  | grass |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 6 | **run** | present · progressive | lawnmower |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **run** | infinitive |  | lawnmower |  |  | day |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory |
| 8 | **hurt** | can | lawnmower | hedgehogs |  |  | night |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hedgehog=Patient |

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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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**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): no change. **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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