--- title: A cobot, or collaborative robot, is a smaller robot made to work bes… — Robots at work and at home · tree and pragmatics description: A cobot, or collaborative robot, is a smaller robot made to work beside people; it senses touch and stops if it bumps someone, and it can be taught by moving its arm by hand. Who acts: cobot, smaller robot, robot. A sentence of the lesson «Robots at work and at home» of the technology course of Mova --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Robots at work and at home, sentence 8 A cobot, or collaborative robot, is a smaller robot made to work beside people; it senses touch and stops if it bumps someone, and it can be taught by moving its arm by hand. **Who acts:** cobot, smaller robot, robot · **What happens:** be, make, work, sense, stop, bump · **To what, where:** smaller robot, touch, someone, robot, arm 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 (cobot, smaller robot, 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:8 # text = A cobot, or collaborative robot, is a smaller robot made to work beside people; it senses touch and stops if it bumps someone, and it can be taught by moving its arm by hand. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cobot cobot NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 collaborative collaborative ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 robot robot NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 amod _ _ 11 robot robot NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 12 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 beside beside ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 senses sense VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 20 touch touch NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 23 if if SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 bumps bump VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 26 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 25 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 taught teach VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 conj _ _ 33 by by SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 34 moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 advcl _ _ 35 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 by by ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a cobot or collaborative robot | a smaller robot | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | participle | | a smaller robot *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **work** | to-infinitive | a smaller robot *not said here* | | | | | beside people | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **sense** | present | robot | touch | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer touch=Stimulus | | 5 | **stop** | present | robot *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 6 | **bump** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | robot | someone | | | | | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent someone=Instrument | | 7 | **teach** *speech: other* | can · passive | | robot | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 8 | **move** | gerund | | robot's arm | | | | by hand | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent arm=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:8`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/39-robots-at-work-and-at-home/7/) - next →: [Robots at work and at home, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/39-robots-at-work-and-at-home/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/39-robots-at-work-and-at-home/)