Unemployment: when jobs are lost, sentence 9
Automation is machines doing work people did; one robot replacing 10 packers takes jobs, but new jobs appear too, and people disagree about whether it balances out.
Who acts: Automation, machines, people, one robot, new jobs, job · What happens: be, do, replace, take, appear, disagree · To what, where: machines, work, 10 packers, jobs
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 (Automation, machines, people, one robot), 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 | Automation | automation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 machines | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 machines | cop |
| 3 | machines | machine | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 machines | acl |
| 5 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 doing | obj |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 did | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 work | acl:relcl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 takes | punct |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 robot | nummod |
| 10 | robot | robot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 takes | nsubj |
| 11 | replacing | replace | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 robot | acl |
| 12 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 packers | nummod |
| 13 | packers | packer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 replacing | obj |
| 14 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 machines | parataxis |
| 15 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 takes | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 appear | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 appear | cc |
| 18 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 jobs | amod |
| 19 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 appear | nsubj |
| 20 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 takes | conj |
| 21 | too | too | ADV | _ | 20 appear | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 disagree | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 disagree | cc |
| 24 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 disagree | nsubj |
| 25 | disagree | disagree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 appear | conj |
| 26 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 29 balances | mark |
| 27 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 29 balances | mark |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 balances | nsubj |
| 29 | balances | balance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 disagree | advcl |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 balances | compound:prt |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 machines | punct |
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 | Automation | machines | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | gerund | machines not said here | work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | do | past | people | work not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | replace | gerund | one robot not said here | 10 packers | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme packer=Co-Theme | ||||
| 5 | take | present | one robot | jobs | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Theme | ||||
| 6 | appear | present | new jobs | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | disagree | present | people | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | balance out | present | job | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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, 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:9.
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 ×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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost/9/