Robots at work and at home, sentence 14
In robotic surgery the surgeon sits at a console and controls the robot arms, which make very small, steady movements; the surgeon is always in charge and the robot does not decide.
Who acts: surgeon, robot arms, robot · What happens: sit, control, make, be, not decide · To what, where: robotic surgery, robot arms, small steady movements, charge
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 (surgeon, robot arms, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 surgery | case |
| 2 | robotic | robotic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 surgery | amod |
| 3 | surgery | surgery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sits | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 surgeon | det |
| 5 | surgeon | surgeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sits | nsubj |
| 6 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 console | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 console | det |
| 9 | console | console | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sits | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 controls | cc |
| 11 | controls | control | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sits | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 arms | det |
| 13 | robot | robot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 arms | compound |
| 14 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 controls | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 make | nsubj |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 arms | acl:relcl |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 small | advmod |
| 19 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 movements | amod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 movements | punct |
| 21 | steady | steady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 movements | amod |
| 22 | movements | movement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 make | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 sits | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 surgeon | det |
| 25 | surgeon | surgeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 charge | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 charge | cop |
| 27 | always | always | ADV | _ | 29 charge | advmod |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 charge | case |
| 29 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sits | parataxis |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 decide | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 robot | det |
| 32 | robot | robot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 decide | nsubj |
| 33 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 decide | aux |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 decide | advmod |
| 35 | decide | decide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 charge | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sits | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | the surgeon | robotic surgery | at a console | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in surgery=Location | |||
| 2 | control | present | the surgeon not said here | the robot arms | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | present | the robot arms | small steady movements | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset movement=Product | ||||
| 4 | is | present | the surgeon | charge | always property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | not decide | present · do-support | the robot | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:technology:039-robots-at-work-and-at-home.lesson:14.
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): R1-cc-next ×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.
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