--- title: Even near self-driving cars, always cross the road safely: stop, loo… — Self-driving cars and machines that run themselves · tree and pragmatics description: Even near self-driving cars, always cross the road safely: stop, look and listen. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Self-driving cars and machines that run themselves» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/40-self-driving-cars-and-machines-that-run-themselves/12/) [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/) / [Self-driving cars and machines that ru…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/40-self-driving-cars-and-machines-that-run-themselves/) / 12 # Self-driving cars and machines that run themselves, sentence 12 Even near self-driving cars, always cross the road safely: stop, look and listen. **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** drive, cross, stop, look, listen · **To what, where:** road, self driving cars This is a sentence of the lesson «Self-driving cars and machines that run themselves» 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:040-self-driving-cars-and-machines-that-run-themselves.lesson:12 # text = Even near self-driving cars, always cross the road safely: stop, look and listen. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 040-self-driving-cars-and-machines-that-run-themselves.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Even even ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 2 near near ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 3 self self NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 5 driving drive VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:_ 6 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 9 advmod _ _ 9 cross cross VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 safely safely ADV RB Degree=Pos 9 advmod _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 14 stop stop VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:parataxis 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 listen listen VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp, act=request | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drive** | gerund | | | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **cross** | imperative | you *not said here* | the road | | self driving cars | | always, safely *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient | | 3 | **stop** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **look** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **listen** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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:040-self-driving-cars-and-machines-that-run-themselves.lesson:12`. **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, R8-pos-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. 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