--- title: Big fires get more firefighters and also do more damage, while the f… — Correlation is not cause: ice cream and sunburn · tree and pragmatics description: Big fires get more firefighters and also do more damage, while the firefighters reduce the damage; mixing up which way the cause goes is called reverse causation. Who acts: Big fires, firefighters, cause. 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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 (Big fires, firefighters, cause), 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:13 # text = Big fires get more firefighters and also do more damage, while the firefighters reduce the damage; mixing up which way the cause goes is called reverse 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 fires fire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 amod _ _ 5 firefighters firefighter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 7 also also ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 amod _ _ 10 damage damage NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 while while SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 firefighters firefighter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 reduce reduce VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 damage damage NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 19 mixing mix VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:csubj:pass 20 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 22 det _ _ 22 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 cause cause NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 28 reverse reverse ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 causation causation NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:obj 30 . . 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 | **get** | present | Big fires | more firefighters | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer firefighter=Stimulus | | 2 | **do** | present | Big fires *not said here* | more damage | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent damage=Eventuality | | 3 | **reduce** | present | the firefighters | the damage | | | | | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer damage=Patient | | 4 | **mix up** | gerund | | which way | | | | | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient | | 5 | **go** | present | the cause | which way *not said here* | | | | | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | | 6 | **call** | present · passive | | reverse causation | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» | 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:13`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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