--- title: Older children have bigger feet and have also had more years of read… — Correlation is not cause: ice cream and sunburn · tree and pragmatics description: Older children have bigger feet and have also had more years of reading practice; feet don't help reading. Who acts: Older children, feet. 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 tree and the pragmati --- [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/12/) [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/) / 12 # Correlation is not cause: ice cream and sunburn, sentence 12 Older children have bigger feet and have also had more years of reading practice; feet don't help reading. **Who acts:** Older children, feet · **What happens:** have, not help, read · **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, feet), 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:12 # text = Older children have bigger feet and have also had more years of reading practice; feet don't help reading. # 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): no change 1 Older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 amod _ _ 2 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 amod _ _ 5 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 also also ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 had have VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 10 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 amod _ _ 11 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 reading reading NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 16 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 17 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 20 reading read VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 xcomp _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **have** | present | Older children | bigger feet | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient | | 2 | **have** | present · perfect | Older children *not said here* | | | | year | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **help** | present · do-support | feet | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **read** *not said to happen* | gerund | feet *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «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](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:12`. **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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