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title: Warehouse robots carry whole shelves or boxes to human pickers, foll… — Robots at work and at home · tree and pragmatics
description: Warehouse robots carry whole shelves or boxes to human pickers, following codes on the floor, and in some warehouses robots zip around on a grid picking boxes from above. Who acts: Warehouse robots, robots. A sentence of the lesson «Robots at work and at home» of the technology course of Mova's prim
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# Robots at work and at home, sentence 13

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Warehouse robots carry whole shelves or boxes to human pickers, following codes on the floor, and in some warehouses robots zip around on a grid picking boxes from above.

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**Who acts:** Warehouse robots, robots · **What happens:** carry, follow, zip around · **To what, where:** whole shelves, human pickers, warehouses

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Robots at work and at home» 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 (Warehouse robots, robots), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:039-robots-at-work-and-at-home.lesson:13
# text = Warehouse robots carry whole shelves or boxes to human pickers, following codes on the floor, and in some warehouses robots zip around on a grid picking boxes from above.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 039-robots-at-work-and-at-home.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Warehouse	warehouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	robots	robot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	shelves	shelf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	boxes	box	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	pickers	picker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	codes	code	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	warehouses	warehouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
22	robots	robot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	zip	zip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
24	around	around	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	grid	grid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	picking	picking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	boxes	box	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	above	above	ADV	RB	_	23	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **carry** | present | Warehouse robots | whole shelves or boxes and following codes on the floor |  | human pickers |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent shelf=Theme to picker=Destination |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **zip around** | present | robots |  |  | some warehouses |  | on a picking boxes; around *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on box=Co-Patient |

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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:039-robots-at-work-and-at-home.lesson:13`.

**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): 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/).

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