--- title: In robotic surgery the surgeon sits at a console and controls the ro… — Robots at work and at home · tree and pragmatics description: In robotic surgery the surgeon sits at a console and controls the robot arms, which make very small, steady movements; the surgeon is always in charge and the robot does not decide. Who acts: surgeon, robot arms, robot. A sentence of the lesson «Robots at work and at home» of the technology course o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/39-robots-at-work-and-at-home/14/) [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/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/) / [Robots at work and at home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/39-robots-at-work-and-at-home/) / 14 # Robots at work and at home, sentence 14 In robotic surgery the surgeon sits at a console and controls the robot arms, which make very small, steady movements; the surgeon is always in charge and the robot does not decide. **Who acts:** surgeon, robot arms, robot · **What happens:** sit, control, make, be, not decide · **To what, where:** robotic surgery, robot arms, small steady movements, charge 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 (surgeon, robot arms, robot), 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:14 # text = In robotic surgery the surgeon sits at a console and controls the robot arms, which make very small, steady movements; the surgeon is always in charge and the robot does not decide. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 robotic robotic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 surgery surgery NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 surgeon surgeon NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 console console NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc 11 controls control VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 robot robot NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 18 very very ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 steady steady ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 movements movement NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 surgeon surgeon NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 27 always always ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 charge charge NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=29:cc 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 robot robot NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 33 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 decide decide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | present | the surgeon | | | robotic surgery | | at a console | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in surgery=Location | | 2 | **control** | present | the surgeon *not said here* | the robot arms | | | | | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | | 3 | **make** | present | the robot arms | small steady movements | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset movement=Product | | 4 | **is** | present | the surgeon | | | charge | | always *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **decide** | present · do-support | the robot | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:technology:039-robots-at-work-and-at-home.lesson:14`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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: [Robots at work and at home, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/39-robots-at-work-and-at-home/13/) - next →: [Robots at work and at home, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/39-robots-at-work-and-at-home/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/39-robots-at-work-and-at-home/)