--- title: In a car factory, big robot arms weld and paint the same way thousan… — Robots at work and at home · tree and pragmatics description: In a car factory, big robot arms weld and paint the same way thousands of times without getting tired or bored, so they work behind fences where people cannot wander in. Who acts: big robot arms, arms, people. 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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 (big robot arms, arms, people), 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:2 # text = In a car factory, big robot arms weld and paint the same way thousands of times without getting tired or bored, so they work behind fences where people cannot wander in. # 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): R5-strong ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 factory factory NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 robot robot NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 weld weld VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 paint paint VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:det 13 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:amod 14 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 18 without without SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 19 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 20 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 bored bored ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 27 behind behind ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 fences fence NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 29 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 33 advmod _ _ 30 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 31 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 wander wander VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 acl _ _ 34 in in ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **weld** | present | big robot arms | | | a car factory | | | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **paint** | infinitive | big robot arms *not said here* | way thousands of times | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent thousand=Destination | | 3 | **get** | gerund | big robot arms *not said here* | | | | | tired *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **work** | present | arms *= arm* | | | fences | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **wander** | can | people | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «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:technology:039-robots-at-work-and-at-home.lesson:2`. **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 ×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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/39-robots-at-work-and-at-home/1/) - next →: [Robots at work and at home, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/39-robots-at-work-and-at-home/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/39-robots-at-work-and-at-home/)