Correlation is not cause: ice cream and sunburn, sentence 3
Older children have bigger feet AND read better, because they are older.
Who acts: Older children, children · What happens: have, read, be · To what, where: bigger feet
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 (Older children, children), 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 | Older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 children | amod |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 feet | amod |
| 5 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | AND | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 read | cc |
| 7 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 have | conj |
| 8 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 read | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 older | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 older | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 older | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 older | cop |
| 13 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 have | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Older children | bigger feet | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient | ||||
| 2 | read | infinitive | Older children not said here | well property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | children = child | old property | tree rules |
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:3.
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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