Correlation is not cause: ice cream and sunburn, sentence 12
Older children have bigger feet and have also had more years of reading practice; feet don't help reading.
Who acts: Older children, feet · What happens: have, not help, read · To what, where: bigger feet
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 (Older children, feet), 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 | Older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 children | amod |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 feet | amod |
| 5 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 had | cc |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 had | aux |
| 8 | also | also | ADV | _ | 9 had | advmod |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 have | conj |
| 10 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 years | amod |
| 11 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 had | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 practice | case |
| 13 | reading | reading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 practice | compound |
| 14 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 years | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 help | punct |
| 16 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 help | nsubj |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 help | aux |
| 18 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 help | advmod |
| 19 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 have | parataxis |
| 20 | reading | read | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 help | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Older children | bigger feet | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | present · perfect | Older children not said here | year | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not help | present · do-support | feet | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | read not said to happen | gerund | feet not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «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:world:180-correlation-is-not-cause-ice-cream-and-sunburn.lesson:12.
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): no change. 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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