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title: Automatic doors use sensors, some with a radar beam and some with in… — Self-driving cars and machines that run themselves · tree and pragmatics
description: Automatic doors use sensors, some with a radar beam and some with infrared light, to detect people coming, and motors open them; never play in them, because they can close on you. Who acts: Automatic doors, people, motors, door. A sentence of the lesson «Self-driving cars and machines that run thems
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# Self-driving cars and machines that run themselves, sentence 15

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Automatic doors use sensors, some with a radar beam and some with infrared light, to detect people coming, and motors open them; never play in them, because they can close on you.

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**Who acts:** Automatic doors, people, motors, door · **What happens:** use, detect, come, open, not play, close · **To what, where:** sensors, people

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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 (Automatic doors, people, motors, door), 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:15
# text = Automatic doors use sensors, some with a radar beam and some with infrared light, to detect people coming, and motors open them; never play in them, because they can close on you.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Automatic	automatic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	sensors	sensor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	appos	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	radar	radar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	beam	beam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	infrared	infrared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
15	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	detect	detect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	motors	motor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	open	open	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:conj
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
27	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	play	play	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	close	close	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **use** | present | Automatic doors | sensors |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sensor=Patient |
| 2 | **detect** | to-infinitive | Automatic doors *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus |
| 3 | **come** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **open** | present | motors | People |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **play** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | in motors *= motor* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **close** | can | door |  |  |  |  | on you | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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:15`.

**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, 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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