Correlation is not cause: ice cream and sunburn, sentence 17

Washing a car can't change the weather; remembering only the times that match what you believe is called confirmation bias.

Who acts: Washing, times, you, remembering · What happens: wash, not change, remember, match, believe, call · To what, where: car, weather, times, confirmation bias · 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 (Washing, times, you, remembering), 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	Washing	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 change	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 car	det
3	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Washing	obj
4	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 change	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 change	advmod
6	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 weather	det
8	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 change	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 change	punct
10	remembering	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 called	csubj:pass
11	only	only	ADV	_	13 times	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 times	det
13	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 remembering	obj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 match	nsubj
15	match	match	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 times	acl:relcl
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 match	obj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 believe	nsubj
18	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 what	acl:relcl
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 called	aux:pass
20	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 change	conj
21	confirmation	confirmation	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bias	compound
22	bias	bias	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 called	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 change	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	wash	gerund		a car		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Patient
2	not change	can	Washing	the weather		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weather=Patient
3	remember	gerund			time	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	match	present	the times	the times		vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
5	believe	present	you			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
6	call speech: assert	present · passive	remembering	confirmation bias		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:17.

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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