Correlation is not cause: ice cream and sunburn, sentence 15

Breakfast probably helps you concentrate, but families who make breakfast may differ in other ways too, so careful tests compare similar families.

Who acts: Breakfast, you, families, careful tests · What happens: help, concentrate, make, differ, compare · To what, where: breakfast, other ways, similar families

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 (Breakfast, you, families, careful tests), 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	Breakfast	Breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 helps	nsubj
2	probably	probably	ADV	_	3 helps	advmod
3	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 concentrate	nsubj
5	concentrate	concentrate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 helps	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 differ	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 differ	cc
8	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 differ	nsubj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 make	nsubj
10	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 families	acl:relcl
11	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 make	obj
12	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 differ	aux
13	differ	differ	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 helps	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 ways	case
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 ways	amod
16	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 differ	obl
17	too	too	ADV	_	13 differ	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 compare	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	22 compare	advmod
20	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tests	amod
21	tests	test	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 compare	nsubj
22	compare	compare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 differ	advcl
23	similar	similar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 families	amod
24	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 compare	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 helps	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	help	present	Breakfast			probably property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	concentrate	infinitive	you				vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
3	make	present	families	breakfast			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Product
4	differ	may	families		other ways		vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	compare	present	careful tests	similar families			vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Patient

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:15.

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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