--- title: When two things happen together, one does not have to cause the othe… — Correlation is not cause: ice cream and sunburn · tree and pragmatics description: When two things happen together, one does not have to cause the other; grown-ups say "correlation is not causation". Who acts: two things, one, ups, correlation. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two things, one, ups, correlation), 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:10 # text = When two things happen together, one does not have to cause the other; grown-ups say "correlation is not causation". # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 happen happen VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 together together ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nsubj _ _ 8 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 cause cause VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 advcl _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 18 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 21 correlation correlation NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:compound 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 causation causation NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 ccomp _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | present | two things | | | | | together *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **not** **have** | present · do-support | one | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **cause** | to-infinitive | one *not said here* | the other | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition other=Patient | | 4 | **grow** | participle | one *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | ups | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | correlation | causation | | | | | 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](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:10`. **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. 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