--- title: A factory robot is controlled by a computer that drives motors in ea… — Robots at work and at home · tree and pragmatics description: A factory robot is controlled by a computer that drives motors in each joint, and sensors and cameras help it pick, place, weld or paint the same way every time; big ones work behind fences or slow down and stop near people. Who acts: computer, sensors, robot, big ones. A sentence of the lesson «Rob --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Robots at work and at home, sentence 7 A factory robot is controlled by a computer that drives motors in each joint, and sensors and cameras help it pick, place, weld or paint the same way every time; big ones work behind fences or slow down and stop near people. **Who acts:** computer, sensors, robot, big ones · **What happens:** control, drive, help, pick, place, weld · **To what, where:** factory robot, motors, joint, robot, same way, fences 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 (computer, sensors, robot, big ones), 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:7 # text = A factory robot is controlled by a computer that drives motors in each joint, and sensors and cameras help it pick, place, weld or paint the same way every time; big ones work behind fences or slow down and stop near people. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 factory factory NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 robot robot NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 controlled control VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 computer computer NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:agent _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 drives drive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 motors motor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 14 joint joint NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 sensors sensor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 cameras camera NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 20 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 pick pick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 place place VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 weld weld VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 paint paint VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 33 det _ _ 33 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl:unmarked _ _ 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 37 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 38 behind behind ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 fences fence NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ _ 40 or or CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 slow slow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=37:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 42 down down ADP RP _ 41 compound:prt _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:conj 45 near near ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obl _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **control** | present · passive | a computer | a factory robot | | | | | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 2 | **drive** | present | a computer | motors | | each joint | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent motor=Theme in joint=Destination | | 3 | **help** | present | sensors and cameras | robot | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 4 | **pick** | infinitive | robot *not said here* | | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **place** | infinitive | robot *not said here* | | | | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **weld** | infinitive | robot *not said here* | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **paint** | infinitive | robot *not said here* | the same way | | | time | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Destination | | 8 | **work** | present | big ones | | | fences | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **slow down** | present | big ones *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 10 | **stop** | present | big ones *not said here* | | | | | near people | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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:7`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [Robots at work and at home, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/39-robots-at-work-and-at-home/6/) - next →: [Robots at work and at home, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/39-robots-at-work-and-at-home/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/39-robots-at-work-and-at-home/)