--- title: Robot dogs are four-legged robots that use motors and balance sensor… — Self-driving cars and machines that run themselves · tree and pragmatics description: Robot dogs are four-legged robots that use motors and balance sensors to walk on rough ground where wheels get stuck, and some inspect places too dangerous for people. Who acts: Robot dogs, legged robots, wheels, some. A sentence of the lesson «Self-driving cars and machines that run themselves» of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/40-self-driving-cars-and-machines-that-run-themselves/20/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/) / [Self-driving cars and machines that ru…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/40-self-driving-cars-and-machines-that-run-themselves/) / 20 # Self-driving cars and machines that run themselves, sentence 20 Robot dogs are four-legged robots that use motors and balance sensors to walk on rough ground where wheels get stuck, and some inspect places too dangerous for people. **Who acts:** Robot dogs, legged robots, wheels, some · **What happens:** be, use, walk, get, inspect · **To what, where:** legged robots, motors, rough ground, places 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 (Robot dogs, legged robots, wheels, some), 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:20 # text = Robot dogs are four-legged robots that use motors and balance sensors to walk on rough ground where wheels get stuck, and some inspect places too dangerous for people. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Robot robot NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nummod 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 6 legged leg ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 robots robot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 motors motor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 balance balance NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 sensors sensor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 rough rough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 21 advmod _ _ 20 wheels wheel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 22 stuck stuck ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 26 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 26 inspect inspect VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 27 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 too too ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:acl 30 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Robot dogs | legged robots | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **use** | present | legged robots | motors and balance sensors | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent motor=Patient | | 3 | **walk** | to-infinitive | legged robots *not said here* | | | rough ground | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Trajectory | | 4 | **get** | present | wheels | | | | | stuck *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **inspect** | present | some | places | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | 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:20`. **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, R8-pos-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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