--- title: A vending machine checks the money, some by the size, weight and met… — Self-driving cars and machines that run themselves · tree and pragmatics description: A vending machine checks the money, some by the size, weight and metal of the coin, and then a spiral turns to push the snack forward; never tip or rock one, because it can fall on you. Who acts: vending machine, spiral. 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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 (vending machine, spiral), 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:17 # text = A vending machine checks the money, some by the size, weight and metal of the coin, and then a spiral turns to push the snack forward; never tip or rock one, because it can fall 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 vending vend NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 3 machine machine NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 checks check VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 8 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 4 conj _ _ 9 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 coin coin NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 advmod _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 spiral spiral NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 push push VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 snack snack NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 forward forward ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 tip tip VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 33 or or CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 rock rock VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 35 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 obj _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 because because SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 advcl _ _ 41 on on ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 40 obl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **check** | present | a vending machine | the money | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | | 2 | **turn** | present | a spiral | | | | then | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **push** | to-infinitive | a spiral *not said here* | the snack | | | | forward *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snack=Theme | | 4 | **not** **tip** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **rock** | infinitive | | one | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme | | 6 | **fall** | can | spiral | | | | | on you | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on you=Location | 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: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): R2-punct-next ×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. 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