Correlation is not cause: ice cream and sunburn, sentence 20

More people drown in summer because more people swim in hot weather; swimming where there are lifeguards matters far more than what you eat.

Who acts: More people, lifeguards, you · What happens: drown, swim, be, matter, eat · To what, where: hot weather, more

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 (More people, lifeguards, you), 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	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drown	nsubj
3	drown	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 summer	case
5	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drown	obl
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 swim	mark
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 people	amod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 swim	nsubj
9	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 drown	advcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 weather	case
11	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 weather	amod
12	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 swim	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 swimming	punct
14	swimming	swim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 matters	nsubj
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 are	advmod
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 are	expl
17	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 swimming	advcl
18	lifeguards	lifeguard	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 are	nsubj
19	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 drown	parataxis
20	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 more	advmod
21	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 matters	obj
22	than	than	ADP	_	23 what	case
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 matters	obl
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 eat	nsubj
25	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 what	acl:relcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drown	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	drown	present	More people			summer	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	swim	present	more people		hot weather		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in weather=Trajectory
3	swim	gerund					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	does	present	lifeguards		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	matter	present		more			tree rules
6	eat	present	you				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:20.

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 ×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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