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title: A delivery drone carries a small parcel, flies a planned route with… — Robots at work and at home · tree and pragmatics
description: A delivery drone carries a small parcel, flies a planned route with GPS and lowers the parcel down; some countries use drones to deliver medicines to remote places. Who acts: delivery drone, countries. A sentence of the lesson «Robots at work and at home» of the technology course of Mova's primary s
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# Robots at work and at home, sentence 11

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A delivery drone carries a small parcel, flies a planned route with GPS and lowers the parcel down; some countries use drones to deliver medicines to remote places.

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**Who acts:** delivery drone, countries · **What happens:** carry, fly, plan, lower down, use, deliver · **To what, where:** small parcel, planned route, parcel, drones, medicines, remote places

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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 (delivery drone, countries), 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:11
# text = A delivery drone carries a small parcel, flies a planned route with GPS and lowers the parcel down; some countries use drones to deliver medicines to remote places.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	delivery	delivery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	drone	drone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	carries	carry	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	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	parcel	parcel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	flies	fly	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	planned	plan	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	route	route	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	GPS	gp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	lowers	lower	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	parcel	parcel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	down	down	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
24	drones	drone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
27	medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	remote	remote	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
31	.	.	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 | **carry** | present | a delivery drone | a small parcel |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parcel=Theme |
| 2 | **fly** | present | a delivery drone *not said here* | a planned route |  |  |  | with GPS | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location route=Theme |
| 3 | **plan** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lower down** | present | a delivery drone *not said here* | the parcel |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parcel=Theme |
| 5 | **use** | present | some countries | drones |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drone=Patient |
| 6 | **deliver** | to-infinitive | some countries *not said here* | medicines |  | remote places |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme to place=Destination |

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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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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