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title: Machines that run themselves are all around you: the shop door that… — Self-driving cars and machines that run themselves · tree and pragmatics
description: Machines that run themselves are all around you: the shop door that slides open as you walk up, the self-checkout that weighs your apples, the vending machine that checks your coin, the cash machine that counts out notes. Who acts: Machines, shop door, you, self checkout. A sentence of the lesson «S
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# Self-driving cars and machines that run themselves, sentence 4

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Machines that run themselves are all around you: the shop door that slides open as you walk up, the self-checkout that weighs your apples, the vending machine that checks your coin, the cash machine that counts out notes.

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**Who acts:** Machines, shop door, you, self checkout, vending machine, cash machine · **What happens:** run, slide, walk up, weigh, check, count out · **To what, where:** Machines, apples, coin, notes

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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 (Machines, shop door, you, self checkout), 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:4
# text = Machines that run themselves are all around you: the shop door that slides open as you walk up, the self-checkout that weighs your apples, the vending machine that checks your coin, the cash machine that counts out notes.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Machines	machine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	around	around	ADP	IN	_	0	root	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	slides	slide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	_
24	checkout	checkout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	weighs	weigh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	vending	vend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
32	machine	machine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	checks	check	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
35	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	cash	cash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	machine	machine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:appos
41	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj	_	_
42	counts	count	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	acl:relcl	_	_
43	out	out	ADP	RP	_	42	compound:prt	_	_
44	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obj	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7: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 | **run** | present | Machines | Machines *= machine* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme themselves=Trajectory |
| 2 | **slide** | present | the shop door and the cash machine |  |  |  |  | open *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **walk up** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **weigh** | present | the self checkout | your apples |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **check** | present | the vending machine | your coin |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Theme |
| 6 | **count out** | present | the cash machine | notes |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Theme |
| 7 | **coin** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom coin «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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.

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

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