--- title: Automation is machines doing work people did; one robot replacing 10… — Unemployment: when jobs are lost · tree and pragmatics description: Automation is machines doing work people did; one robot replacing 10 packers takes jobs, but new jobs appear too, and people disagree about whether it balances out. Who acts: Automation, machines, people, one robot. 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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 (Automation, machines, people, one robot), 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:9 # text = Automation is machines doing work people did; one robot replacing 10 packers takes jobs, but new jobs appear too, and people disagree 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Automation automation NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 machines machine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 5 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 9 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 robot robot NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 11 replacing replace VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 acl _ _ 12 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 packers packer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 15 jobs job NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 jobs job NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 appear appear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 21 too too ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 disagree disagree VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 26 about about SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 balances balance VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:ccomp 30 out out ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Automation | machines | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **do** | gerund | machines *not said here* | work | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | | 3 | **do** | past | people | work *not said here* | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | | 4 | **replace** | gerund | one robot *not said here* | 10 packers | | | | | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme packer=Co-Theme | | 5 | **take** | present | one robot | jobs | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Theme | | 6 | **appear** | present | new jobs | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **disagree** | present | people | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **balance out** | present | job | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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:money:035-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost.lesson:9`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [Unemployment: when jobs are lost, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost/8/) - next →: [Unemployment: when jobs are lost, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost/)