Correlation is not cause: ice cream and sunburn, sentence 16

Smoking causes lung disease; a lighter is only a sign that someone might smoke.

Who acts: Smoking, lighter, someone · What happens: cause, be, smoke · To what, where: lung disease, sign

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 (Smoking, lighter, someone), 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	Smoking	smoking	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 causes	nsubj
2	causes	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	lung	lung	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 disease	compound
4	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 causes	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 sign	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lighter	det
7	lighter	lighter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sign	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sign	cop
9	only	only	ADV	_	11 sign	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 sign	det
11	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 causes	parataxis
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 smoke	mark
13	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 smoke	nsubj
14	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 smoke	aux
15	smoke	smoke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 sign	acl:relcl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 causes	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cause	present	Smoking	lung disease	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition disease=Patient
2	is a	present	a lighter	a sign	tree rules
3	smoke	might	someone	a sign not said here	vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent sign=Source

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:16.

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): 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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