Correlation is not cause: ice cream and sunburn, sentence 18
A real 2012 article in a medical journal pointed out that countries eating more chocolate win more Nobel Prizes (the most famous prizes for science), partly as a joke; wealth explains both.
Who acts: real 2012 article, countries, wealth · What happens: point out, eat, win, explain · To what, where: more chocolate, more Nobel Prizes, both
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 (real 2012 article, countries, wealth), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 article | det |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 article | amod |
| 3 | 2012 | 2012 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 article | compound |
| 4 | article | article | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pointed | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 journal | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 journal | det |
| 7 | medical | medical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 journal | amod |
| 8 | journal | journal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 article | nmod |
| 9 | pointed | point | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 pointed | compound:prt |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 win | mark |
| 12 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 win | nsubj |
| 13 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 countries | acl |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 chocolate | amod |
| 15 | chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 eating | obj |
| 16 | win | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 pointed | ccomp |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 Prizes | amod |
| 18 | Nobel | Nobel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Prizes | compound |
| 19 | Prizes | prize | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 win | obj |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 prizes | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 prizes | det |
| 22 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 23 famous | advmod |
| 23 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 prizes | amod |
| 24 | prizes | prize | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 Prizes | appos |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 science | case |
| 26 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 prizes | nmod |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 prizes | punct |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 partly | punct |
| 29 | partly | partly | ADV | _ | 13 eating | advmod |
| 30 | as | as | ADP | _ | 32 joke | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 joke | det |
| 32 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 partly | obl |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 explains | punct |
| 34 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 explains | nsubj |
| 35 | explains | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 pointed | parataxis |
| 36 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 explains | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 pointed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point out | past | a real 2012 article in a medical journal | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | eat | gerund | countries not said here | more chocolate | partly property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chocolate=Patient | |||
| 3 | win | present | countries | more Nobel Prizes | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | explain speech: assert | present | wealth | both | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=Topic |
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:18.
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, R8-pos-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.
See the release 0.4.
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