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title: A surgical robot moves only when the surgeon moves its controls, and… — Robots at work and at home · tree and pragmatics
description: A surgical robot moves only when the surgeon moves its controls, and a robot lawnmower does not see a hedgehog in the dark, so people stay in charge and stay careful. Who acts: surgical robot, surgeon, robot lawnmower, people. A sentence of the lesson «Robots at work and at home» of the technology c
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# Robots at work and at home, sentence 6

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A surgical robot moves only when the surgeon moves its controls, and a robot lawnmower does not see a hedgehog in the dark, so people stay in charge and stay careful.

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**Who acts:** surgical robot, surgeon, robot lawnmower, people · **What happens:** move, not see, stay · **To what, where:** controls, hedgehog, dark, charge

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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 (surgical robot, surgeon, robot lawnmower, 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:6
# text = A surgical robot moves only when the surgeon moves its controls, and a robot lawnmower does not see a hedgehog in the dark, so people stay in charge and stay careful.
# 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det
2	surgical	surgical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:amod
3	robot	robot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound
4	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
6	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	surgeon	surgeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	controls	control	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	robot	robot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	lawnmower	lawnmower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	nmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:conj
33	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **move** | present | a surgical robot |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **move** | present | the surgeon | robot's controls |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent control=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **see** | present · do-support | a robot lawnmower | a hedgehog |  | the dark |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hedgehog=Stimulus |
| 4 | **stay** | present | people |  |  | charge |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in charge=Location |
| 5 | **stay** | infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | careful *property* | vn exist-47.1 «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:039-robots-at-work-and-at-home.lesson:6`.

**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 ×3, 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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