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title: A smart home has lights, heating and locks connected to the internet… — Self-driving cars and machines that run themselves · tree and pragmatics
description: A smart home has lights, heating and locks connected to the internet that can be controlled by phone or voice, and a smart thermostat can learn when people are home; the accounts must be kept secure. Who acts: smart home, phone, smart thermostat, people. A sentence of the lesson «Self-driving cars a
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# Self-driving cars and machines that run themselves, sentence 19

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A smart home has lights, heating and locks connected to the internet that can be controlled by phone or voice, and a smart thermostat can learn when people are home; the accounts must be kept secure.

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**Who acts:** smart home, phone, smart thermostat, people · **What happens:** have, connect, control, learn, be, keep · **To what, where:** lights, internet, accounts

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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 (smart home, phone, smart thermostat, people), 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:19
# text = A smart home has lights, heating and locks connected to the internet that can be controlled by phone or voice, and a smart thermostat can learn when people are home; the accounts must be kept secure.
# 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	heating	heating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	locks	lock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
10	connected	connect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	internet	internet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	controlled	control	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	thermostat	thermostat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
29	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
30	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	home	home	ADV	RB	_	28	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:advmod
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	accounts	account	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
39	secure	secure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	xcomp	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **have** | present | a smart home | lights and heating and locks |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Patient |
| 2 | **connect** | participle |  | lights and heating and locks *not said here* |  |  |  | to the internet | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient to internet=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **control** | can · passive | phone or voice | the internet |  |  |  |  | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 4 | **learn** | can | a smart thermostat |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | people |  |  |  |  | home *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **keep** | must · passive |  | the accounts |  |  |  | secure *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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:19`.

**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 ×2, 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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