--- title: Most cars are not fully self-driving: they have helpers that keep th… — Self-driving cars and machines that run themselves · tree and pragmatics description: Most cars are not fully self-driving: they have helpers that keep the car in its lane or brake by themselves before a crash, while the driver stays in charge. Who acts: Most cars, radar, helpers, driver. 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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 (Most cars, radar, helpers, 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:2 # text = Most cars are not fully self-driving: they have helpers that keep the car in its lane or brake by themselves before a crash, while the driver stays in charge. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:aux 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 5 fully fully ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 6 self self NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 driving drive VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 12 helpers helper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 lane lane NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 brake brake NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 by by ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 14 obl _ _ 24 before before ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 crash crash NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 while while SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 charge charge NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | present | Most cars | | | | | drive, fully *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | present | radar | helpers | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helper=Patient | | 3 | **keep** | present | helpers | the car | | car's lane or brake | before a crash | by radar | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent car=Theme in lane=Location | | 4 | **stay** | present | the driver | | | charge | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in charge=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:2`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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