Unemployment: when jobs are lost, sentence 3

New machines can replace some jobs, like one robot doing the work of 10 packers, but they also create new ones, like fixing robots; people argue about whether it balances out.

Who acts: New machines, one robot, machines, people, job, 10 packers · What happens: replace, do, create, fix, argue, balance out · To what, where: jobs, work, new ones

This is a sentence of the lesson «Unemployment: when jobs are lost» of the money 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 (New machines, one robot, machines, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	New	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 machines	amod
2	machines	machine	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 replace	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 replace	aux
4	replace	replace	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 jobs	det
6	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 replace	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 robot	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 robot	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 robot	nummod
10	robot	robot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 replace	obl
11	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 robot	acl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 work	det
13	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 doing	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 packers	case
15	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 packers	nummod
16	packers	packer	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 work	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 create	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 create	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 create	nsubj
20	also	also	ADV	_	21 create	advmod
21	create	create	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 replace	conj
22	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 ones	amod
23	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 create	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 robots	punct
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 robots	case
26	fixing	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 robots	amod
27	robots	robot	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 ones	conj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 argue	punct
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 argue	nsubj
30	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 replace	conj
31	about	about	SCONJ	_	34 balances	mark
32	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	34 balances	mark
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 balances	nsubj
34	balances	balance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 argue	advcl
35	out	out	ADP	_	34 balances	compound:prt
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 replace	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	replace	can	New machines	some jobs	like one robot	vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme job=Co-Theme
2	do	gerund	one robot not said here	the work of 10 packers		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
3	create	present	machines = machine	new ones and fixing robots		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Result
4	fix	gerund				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	argue speech: disagree	present	people			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	balance out	present	job			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	work		10 packers			nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent

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, 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:money:035-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost.lesson:3.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost/3/