Correlation is not cause: ice cream and sunburn, sentence 5
Then check which way the arrow points: big fires get more firefighters and do more damage; hospitals are full of ill people because ill people go there to get better.
Who acts: you, arrow, big fires, hospitals, ill people · What happens: check, point, get, do, be, go · To what, where: way, more firefighters, more damage
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 (you, arrow, big fires, hospitals), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 check | advmod |
| 2 | check | check | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 4 way | det |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 check | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 arrow | det |
| 6 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 points | nsubj |
| 7 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 check | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 get | punct |
| 9 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fires | amod |
| 10 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 get | nsubj |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 check | parataxis |
| 12 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 firefighters | amod |
| 13 | firefighters | firefighter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 get | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 do | cc |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 get | conj |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 damage | amod |
| 17 | damage | damage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 do | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 full | punct |
| 19 | hospitals | hospital | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 full | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 full | cop |
| 21 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 check | parataxis |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 people | case |
| 23 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 people | amod |
| 24 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 full | obl |
| 25 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 28 go | mark |
| 26 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 people | amod |
| 27 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 go | nsubj |
| 28 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 full | advcl |
| 29 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 go | advmod |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 get | mark |
| 31 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 go | advcl |
| 32 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 31 get | xcomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 check | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | imperative | you not said here | which way | then | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | |||
| 2 | point | the arrow | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | get | present | big fires | more firefighters | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer firefighter=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | do | present | big fires not said here | more damage | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent damage=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | is | present | hospitals | of ill people; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | go | present | ill people | there | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | get | to-infinitive | ill people not said here | good property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:5.
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): R5-strong ×1, 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.
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