--- title: A robot vacuum uses sensors, and sometimes a spinning laser or a cam… — Robots at work and at home · tree and pragmatics description: A robot vacuum uses sensors, and sometimes a spinning laser or a camera, to map the room, bumps gently into things and returns to its dock to charge; pick up small toys, cables and socks before it runs. Who acts: robot vacuum, robot. 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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, robot), 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:9 # text = A robot vacuum uses sensors, and sometimes a spinning laser or a camera, to map the room, bumps gently into things and returns to its dock to charge; pick up small toys, cables and socks before it runs. # 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, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-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 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 sensors sensor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 10 advmod _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 spinning spin VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 11 laser laser NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obj 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 camera camera NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 map map VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 bumps bump VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 22 gently gently ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 into into ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:obj 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 returns return VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 dock dock NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 charge charge VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:acl 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 33 pick pick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 34 up up ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ _ 35 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 toys toy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 cables cable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 conj _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 socks sock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 conj _ _ 41 before before SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 44 . . 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 | **use** | present | a robot vacuum | sensors and laser or a camera | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sensor=Patient | | 2 | **spin** | gerund | a robot vacuum *not said here* | | | | | sometimes *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **map** | to-infinitive | a robot vacuum *not said here* | the room | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **bump** | present | | | | things | | gently *property* | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into thing=Location | | 5 | **return** | present | | | | | | to robot's dock *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to dock=Result | | 6 | **charge** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **pick up** | infinitive | | small toys and cables and socks | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toy=Topic | | 8 | **run** | present | robot | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:9`. **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, R5-strong ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Robots at work and at home, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/39-robots-at-work-and-at-home/8/) - next →: [Robots at work and at home, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/39-robots-at-work-and-at-home/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/39-robots-at-work-and-at-home/)