Correlation is not cause: ice cream and sunburn, sentence 1
On hot days more ice creams are sold and more people get sunburnt, yet ice cream doesn't burn anyone: the sun does both.
Who acts: more people, ice cream, sun · What happens: sell, get, not burn, do · To what, where: more ice creams, anyone, both
This is a sentence of the lesson «Correlation is not cause: ice cream and sunburn» of the world 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 (more people, ice cream, sun), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 days | amod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sold | obl |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 creams | amod |
| 5 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 creams | compound |
| 6 | creams | cream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sold | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sold | aux:pass |
| 8 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 get | cc |
| 10 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 people | amod |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 get | nsubj |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sold | conj |
| 13 | sunburnt | sunburnt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 get | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 burn | punct |
| 15 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 20 burn | cc |
| 16 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cream | compound |
| 17 | cream | cream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 burn | nsubj |
| 18 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 burn | aux |
| 19 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 burn | advmod |
| 20 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sold | conj |
| 21 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 burn | obj |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 does | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sun | det |
| 24 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 does | nsubj |
| 25 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sold | parataxis |
| 26 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 does | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sold | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
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- polarity
- none
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- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | present · passive | more ice creams | day | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | present | more people | sunburnt property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | not burn | present · do-support | ice cream | anyone | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent anyone=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | present | the sun | both | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=Eventuality |
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:world:180-correlation-is-not-cause-ice-cream-and-sunburn.lesson:1.
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): R5-strong ×1, 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.
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