--- title: New machines can replace some jobs, like one robot doing the work of… — Unemployment: when jobs are lost · tree and pragmatics description: New machines can replace some jobs, like one robot doing the work of 10 packers, but they also create new ones, like fixing robots; people argue about whether it balances out. Who acts: New machines, one robot, machines, people. A sentence of the lesson «Unemployment: when jobs are lost» of the mone --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost/3/) [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/) / [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/) / [Unemployment: when jobs are lost](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost/) / 3 # Unemployment: when jobs are lost, sentence 3 New machines can replace some jobs, like one robot doing the work of 10 packers, but they also create new ones, like fixing robots; people argue about whether it balances out. **Who acts:** New machines, one robot, machines, people, job, 10 packers · **What happens:** replace, do, create, fix, argue, balance out · **To what, where:** jobs, work, new ones This is a sentence of the lesson «Unemployment: when jobs are lost» of the money 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 (New machines, one robot, machines, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:money:035-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost.lesson:3 # text = New machines can replace some jobs, like one robot doing the work of 10 packers, but they also create new ones, like fixing robots; people argue about whether it balances out. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = money # lesson = 035-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 New new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 machines machine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 replace replace VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 6 det _ _ 6 jobs job NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 like like ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 robot robot NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 11 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 acl _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 packers packer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 also also ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 create create VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 22 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 like like ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 fixing fix VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 amod _ _ 27 robots robot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 29 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 argue argue VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=21:conj 31 about about SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 32 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 balances balance VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:ccomp 35 out out ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **replace** | can | New machines | some jobs | | | | like one robot | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme job=Co-Theme | | 2 | **do** | gerund | one robot *not said here* | the work of 10 packers | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | | 3 | **create** | present | machines *= machine* | new ones and fixing robots | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Result | | 4 | **fix** | gerund | | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | people | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **balance out** | present | job | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **work** | | 10 packers | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent | 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:money:035-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost.lesson:3`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Unemployment: when jobs are lost, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost/2/) - next →: [Unemployment: when jobs are lost, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost/)