Correlation is not cause: ice cream and sunburn, sentence 13
Big fires get more firefighters and also do more damage, while the firefighters reduce the damage; mixing up which way the cause goes is called reverse causation.
Who acts: Big fires, firefighters, cause · What happens: get, do, reduce, mix up, go, call · To what, where: more firefighters, more damage, damage, way, reverse causation · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Big fires, firefighters, cause), 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 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fires | amod |
| 2 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 get | nsubj |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 firefighters | amod |
| 5 | firefighters | firefighter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 get | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 do | cc |
| 7 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 do | advmod |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | conj |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 damage | amod |
| 10 | damage | damage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 reduce | punct |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 reduce | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 firefighters | det |
| 14 | firefighters | firefighter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 reduce | nsubj |
| 15 | reduce | reduce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 damage | det |
| 17 | damage | damage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reduce | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 mixing | punct |
| 19 | mixing | mix | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 called | advcl |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 mixing | compound:prt |
| 21 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 22 way | det |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mixing | obj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 cause | det |
| 24 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 goes | nsubj |
| 25 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 way | acl:relcl |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 called | aux:pass |
| 27 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 get | parataxis |
| 28 | reverse | reverse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 causation | amod |
| 29 | causation | causation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 called | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | 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 | get | present | Big fires | more firefighters | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer firefighter=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | do | present | Big fires not said here | more damage | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent damage=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | reduce | present | the firefighters | the damage | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer damage=Patient | ||||
| 4 | mix up | gerund | which way | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient | |||||
| 5 | go | present | the cause | which way not said here | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | ||||
| 6 | call | present · passive | reverse causation | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |
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:13.
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 ×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.
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