--- title: On hot days more ice creams are sold and more people get sunburnt, y… — Correlation is not cause: ice cream and sunburn · tree and pragmatics description: On hot days more ice creams are sold and more people get sunburnt, yet ice cream doesn't burn anyone: the sun does both. Who acts: more people, ice cream, sun. A sentence of the lesson «Correlation is not cause: ice cream and sunburn» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/180-correlation-is-not-cause-ice-cream-and-sunburn/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Correlation is not cause: ice cream an…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/180-correlation-is-not-cause-ice-cream-and-sunburn/) / 1 # Correlation is not cause: ice cream and sunburn, sentence 1 On hot days more ice creams are sold and more people get sunburnt, yet ice cream doesn't burn anyone: the sun does both. **Who acts:** more people, ice cream, sun · **What happens:** sell, get, not burn, do · **To what, where:** more ice creams, anyone, 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 (more people, ice cream, sun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:180-correlation-is-not-cause-ice-cream-and-sunburn.lesson:1 # text = On hot days more ice creams are sold and more people get sunburnt, yet ice cream doesn't burn anyone: the sun does both. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 180-correlation-is-not-cause-ice-cream-and-sunburn.lesson # annotation = 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 1 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 4 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 amod _ _ 5 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 creams cream NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 sold sell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 amod _ _ 11 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 13 sunburnt sunburnt ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 16 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 cream cream NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 18 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 burn burn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 21 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 20 obj _ _ 22 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:acl:relcl 26 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 25 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **sell** | present · passive | | more ice creams | | | day | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **get** | present | more people | | | | | sunburnt *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **not** **burn** | present · do-support | ice cream | anyone | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent anyone=Theme | | 4 | **do** | present | the sun | both | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=Eventuality | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:1`. **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. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: ["It's natural so it's healthy" and the…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/179-its-natural-so-its-healthy-and-the-miracle-cure/21/) - next →: [Correlation is not cause: ice cream an…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/180-correlation-is-not-cause-ice-cream-and-sunburn/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/180-correlation-is-not-cause-ice-cream-and-sunburn/)