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title: A cash machine, or ATM, reads the card's chip, checks the PIN with t… — Self-driving cars and machines that run themselves · tree and pragmatics
description: A cash machine, or ATM, reads the card's chip, checks the PIN with the bank and counts out notes; the first cash machine opened in London in 1967. Who acts: cash machine, first cash machine. A sentence of the lesson «Self-driving cars and machines that run themselves» of the technology course of Mov
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# Self-driving cars and machines that run themselves, sentence 18

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A cash machine, or ATM, reads the card's chip, checks the PIN with the bank and counts out notes; the first cash machine opened in London in 1967.

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**Who acts:** cash machine, first cash machine · **What happens:** read, check, count out, open · **To what, where:** chip, PIN, notes, London

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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 (cash machine, first cash machine), 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:18
# text = A cash machine, or ATM, reads the card's chip, checks the PIN with the bank and counts out notes; the first cash machine opened in London in 1967.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cash	cash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	machine	machine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	ATM	atm	NOUN	NN	_	3	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	reads	read	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	chip	chip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	checks	check	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	PIN	pin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	counts	count	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	28	amod	_	_
27	cash	cash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	machine	machine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	1967	1967	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **read** | present | a cash machine or ATM | the card's chip |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chip=Topic |
| 2 | **check** | present | a cash machine or ATM *not said here* | the PIN |  |  |  | with the bank | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pin=Theme |
| 3 | **count out** | present | a cash machine or ATM *not said here* | notes |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Theme |
| 4 | **open** | past | the first cash machine |  |  | London |  | in 1967 | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in london=Location |

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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:18`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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