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title: Plans of creating English-teaching robot assistants to compensate fo… — South Korea · tree and pragmatics
description: Plans of creating English-teaching robot assistants to compensate for the shortage of teachers were announced in February 2010, with the robots being deployed to most preschools and kindergartens by 2013. Who acts: Plans. A sentence of Wikipedia's «South Korea» with its dependency tree and pragmatic
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# South Korea, sentence 386

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From Wikipedia, [«South Korea»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Plans of creating English-teaching robot assistants to compensate for the shortage of teachers were announced in February 2010, with the robots being deployed to most preschools and kindergartens by 2013.

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**Who acts:** Plans · **What happens:** create, teach, compensate, announce, deploy · **To what, where:** English, robot assistants, Plans, robots

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «South Korea». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Plans), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:South_Korea:386
# text = Plans of creating English-teaching robot assistants to compensate for the shortage of teachers were announced in February 2010, with the robots being deployed to most preschools and kindergartens by 2013.
1	Plans	plan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	creating	create	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
4	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	teaching	teach	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	conj	_	_
7	robot	robot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	assistants	assistant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	compensate	compensate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	shortage	shortage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	announced	announce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	2010	2010	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	robots	robot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	deployed	deploy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	29	amod	_	_
29	preschools	preschool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	kindergartens	kindergarten	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	2013	2013	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **create** | gerund | Plans *not said here* | English |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent english=Result |
| 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | gerund | Plans *not said here* | robot assistants |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent assistant=Recipient |
| 3 | **compensate** | to-infinitive | Plans *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the shortage of teachers | vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **announce** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | Plans |  |  | february |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **deploy** | gerund · passive |  | the robots |  |  |  | to most preschools and kindergartens; by 2013 | tree rules |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «South Korea», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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