--- title: Mia asks whether robots will do all the housework, and Dad says, "I… — The future: hopes · tree and pragmatics description: Mia asks whether robots will do all the housework, and Dad says, "I hope so, especially ironing." Real home robots today are still clumsy and expensive: a robot that can fold a crumpled shirt as well as Dad is much harder to build than one that wins at chess, because real homes are messy and every o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/24-future-hopes/1/) [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/) / [AI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/) / [The future: hopes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/24-future-hopes/) / 1 # The future: hopes, sentence 1 Mia asks whether robots will do all the housework, and Dad says, "I hope so, especially ironing." Real home robots today are still clumsy and expensive: a robot that can fold a crumpled shirt as well as Dad is much harder to build than one that wins at chess, because real homes are messy and every object is different. **Who acts:** Mia, robots, Dad, Real home robots, robot, real homes · **What happens:** ask, do, say, hope, iron, be · **To what, where:** housework, crumpled shirt, one, chess · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The future: hopes» of the ai 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 (Mia, robots, Dad, Real home robots), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:ai:024-future-hopes.lesson:1 # text = Mia asks whether robots will do all the housework, and Dad says, "I hope so, especially ironing." Real home robots today are still clumsy and expensive: a robot that can fold a crumpled shirt as well as Dad is much harder to build than one that wins at chess, because real homes are messy and every object is different. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = ai # lesson = 024-future-hopes.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Mia Mia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 4 robots robot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 5 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 7 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 9 det:predet _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 housework housework NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 Dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 hope hope VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advmod 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 especially especially ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 ironing iron VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 xcomp _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:":_ 24 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 robots robot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 27 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl:unmarked _ _ 28 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 29 still still ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 clumsy clumsy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 expensive expensive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 conj _ _ 33 : : PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 robot robot NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 36 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 38 nsubj _ _ 37 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 fold fold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 acl:relcl _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 crumpled crumple VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 41 amod _ _ 41 shirt shirt NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 42 as as ADV RB ExtPos=ADV 38 advmod _ _ 43 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 42 fixed _ _ 44 as as SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 45 Dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=48:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 46 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 cop _ _ 47 much much ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 48 harder hard ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 38 parataxis _ _ 49 to to PART TO _ 50 mark _ _ 50 build build VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 48 xcomp _ _ 51 than than ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 50 obj _ _ 53 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 54 nsubj _ _ 54 wins win VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 52 acl:relcl _ _ 55 at at ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 56 chess chess NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 obl _ _ 57 , , PUNCT , _ 62 punct _ _ 58 because because SCONJ IN _ 62 mark _ _ 59 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 60 amod _ _ 60 homes home NOUN NNS Number=Plur 62 nsubj _ _ 61 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 62 cop _ _ 62 messy messy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 advcl _ _ 63 and and CCONJ CC _ 67 cc _ _ 64 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 65 det _ _ 65 object object NOUN NN Number=Sing 67 nsubj _ _ 66 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 67 cop _ _ 67 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 62 conj _ _ 68 . . 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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Mia | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **do** | future | robots | all housework | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent housework=Eventuality | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Dad | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **hope** *in a quote* | present | Dad | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **iron** *not said to happen, in a quote* | gerund | Dad *not said here* | | | | | especially *property* | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | present | Real home robots | | | | still; today | clumsy *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **be** | | Real home robots *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **fold** | can | a robot | a crumpled shirt and Dad | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent shirt=Patient | | 9 | **crumple** | participle | | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 10 | **is** | present | | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 11 | **build** | to-infinitive | | one | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset one=Product | | 12 | **win** | present | | | | chess | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent at chess=Eventuality | | 13 | **is** | present | real homes | | | | | messy *property* | tree rules | | 14 | **is** | present | every object | | | | | different *property* | tree rules | 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:ai:024-future-hopes.lesson:1`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [The future: hopes, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/24-future-hopes/0/) - next →: [The future: hopes, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/24-future-hopes/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/24-future-hopes/)