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title: Driver assistance, like lane keeping and automatic emergency braking… — Self-driving cars and machines that run themselves · tree and pragmatics
description: Driver assistance, like lane keeping and automatic emergency braking, uses cameras to help the driver, and many new cars can brake by themselves to avoid a crash; the driver must still pay attention. Who acts: Driver assistance, many new cars, driver. A sentence of the lesson «Self-driving cars and 
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# Self-driving cars and machines that run themselves, sentence 14

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Driver assistance, like lane keeping and automatic emergency braking, uses cameras to help the driver, and many new cars can brake by themselves to avoid a crash; the driver must still pay attention.

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**Who acts:** Driver assistance, many new cars, driver · **What happens:** use, help, brake, avoid, pay · **To what, where:** cameras, driver, crash, attention

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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 (Driver assistance, many new cars, driver), 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:14
# text = Driver assistance, like lane keeping and automatic emergency braking, uses cameras to help the driver, and many new cars can brake by themselves to avoid a crash; the driver must still pay attention.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	assistance	assistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	lane	lane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	keeping	keeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	automatic	automatic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:amod
9	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	braking	braking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	cameras	camera	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:xcomp
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	brake	brake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	obl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	avoid	avoid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	crash	crash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
34	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	still	still	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=24:conj
37	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | Driver assistance like lane keeping and emergency and automatic braking | cameras |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camera=Patient |
| 2 | **help** | to-infinitive | Driver assistance like lane keeping and emergency and automatic braking *not said here* |  | the driver |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent driver=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **brake** | can | many new cars |  |  |  |  | by Cameras *= camera* | tree rules |
| 4 | **avoid** | to-infinitive | many new cars *not said here* | a crash |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent crash=Location |
| 5 | **pay** | must | the driver | attention |  |  | still |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset |

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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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**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:14`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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