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title: People hope robots and AI will help with boring chores, but real hom… — The future: hopes · tree and pragmatics
description: People hope robots and AI will help with boring chores, but real home robots are still clumsy and expensive. Who acts: People, robots, real home robots. A sentence of the lesson «The future: hopes» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The future: hopes, sentence 6

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People hope robots and AI will help with boring chores, but real home robots are still clumsy and expensive.

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**Who acts:** People, robots, real home robots · **What happens:** hope, help, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (People, robots, 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:6
# text = People hope robots and AI will help with boring chores, but real home robots are still clumsy and expensive.
# 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): no change
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hope	hope	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	robots	robot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	AI	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	boring	boring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	chores	chore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	robots	robot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	still	still	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	expensive	expensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **hope** | present | People |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **help** | future | robots and AI |  |  |  |  | with boring chores | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with chore=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | real home robots |  |  |  | still | clumsy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | real home robots *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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:6`.

**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): no change. **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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