--- title: People build roads, power stations, cables, satellites and robots; e… — Self-driving cars and machines that run themselves · tree and pragmatics description: People build roads, power stations, cables, satellites and robots; energy is turned from one form to another to make them run; and every machine follows rules people wrote. Who acts: People, roads, machine. 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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 (People, roads, 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:7 # text = People build roads, power stations, cables, satellites and robots; energy is turned from one form to another to make them run; and every machine follows rules people wrote. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 build build VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 roads road NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 stations station NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 cables cable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 satellites satellite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 12 robots robot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 turned turn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 16 obl _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 29 det _ _ 29 machine machine NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 follows follow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 31 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 32 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 wrote write VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **build** | present | People | roads and power stations and cables and satellites and robots | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Product | | 2 | **turn** | present · passive | | energy | | one form | | to another | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: subject=Theme from form=Source to another=Trajectory | | 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | | roads *= road* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **run** | infinitive | roads *= road* *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **follow** | present | every machine | rules | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme | | 6 | **write** | past | people | rules *not said here* | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=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:7`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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. 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