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title: Robot arms do not see people the way we do, so they work behind fenc… — How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Robot arms do not see people the way we do, so they work behind fences or with sensors that stop them when someone comes close. Who acts: Robot arms, we, people, sensors. A sentence of the lesson «How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and people» of the technology course of Mova's primary schoo
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# How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and people, sentence 11

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Robot arms do not see people the way we do, so they work behind fences or with sensors that stop them when someone comes close.

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**Who acts:** Robot arms, we, people, sensors, someone · **What happens:** not see, do, work, stop, come · **To what, where:** people, way, fences

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and people» of the technology 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 (Robot arms, we, people, sensors), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:001-how-a-factory-works.lesson:11
# text = Robot arms do not see people the way we do, so they work behind fences or with sensors that stop them when someone comes close.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 001-how-a-factory-works.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Robot	robot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
15	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	fences	fence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	sensors	sensor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:acl:relcl
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	25	mark	_	_
24	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	25	nsubj	_	_
25	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
26	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **see** | present · do-support | Robot arms | people |  |  |  | the way *obl:unmarked* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus |
| 2 | **do** | present | we | the way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality |
| 3 | **work** | present | people |  |  | fences or sensors |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **stop** | present | sensors | people |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality they=Eventuality |
| 5 | **come** | present | someone |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:technology:001-how-a-factory-works.lesson:11`.

**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 ×1, 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/).

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