--- title: A Mars rover drives itself short distances, takes photos and tests r… — Robots at work and at home · tree and pragmatics description: A Mars rover drives itself short distances, takes photos and tests rocks, because radio signals take minutes to travel between Mars and Earth, too slow to steer it with a joystick. Who acts: Mars rover, radio signals. A sentence of the lesson «Robots at work and at home» of the technology course of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/39-robots-at-work-and-at-home/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/) / [Robots at work and at home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/39-robots-at-work-and-at-home/) / 17 # Robots at work and at home, sentence 17 A Mars rover drives itself short distances, takes photos and tests rocks, because radio signals take minutes to travel between Mars and Earth, too slow to steer it with a joystick. **Who acts:** Mars rover, radio signals · **What happens:** drive, take, travel, steer · **To what, where:** rover, photos, Mars 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 (Mars rover, radio signals), 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:17 # text = A Mars rover drives itself short distances, takes photos and tests rocks, because radio signals take minutes to travel between Mars and Earth, too slow to steer it with a joystick. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Mars Mars PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 rover rover NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 drives drive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 4 obj _ _ 6 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 distances distance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 photos photo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 tests test NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 compound _ _ 13 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 because because SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 radio radio NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 signals signal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 19 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 travel travel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ _ 22 between between ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Mars Mars PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 too too ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 steer steer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:xcomp 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 joystick joystick NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 . . 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 | **drive** | present | a Mars rover | rover | | | | short distances *obl* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme itself=Trajectory | | 2 | **take** | present | a Mars rover *not said here* | photos and tests rocks | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent photo=Theme | | 3 | **take** | present | radio signals | | | | minute | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **travel** | to-infinitive | radio signals *not said here* | | | Mars and Earth | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between mars=Trajectory | | 5 | **steer** | to-infinitive | radio signals *not said here* | rover | | | | with a joystick | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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:17`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [Robots at work and at home, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/39-robots-at-work-and-at-home/16/) - next →: [Robots at work and at home, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/39-robots-at-work-and-at-home/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/39-robots-at-work-and-at-home/)