--- title: Breakfast probably helps you concentrate, but families who make brea… — Correlation is not cause: ice cream and sunburn · tree and pragmatics description: Breakfast probably helps you concentrate, but families who make breakfast may differ in other ways too, so careful tests compare similar families. Who acts: Breakfast, you, families, careful tests. 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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 (Breakfast, you, families, careful tests), 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:15 # text = Breakfast probably helps you concentrate, but families who make breakfast may differ in other ways too, so careful tests compare similar families. # 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 Breakfast Breakfast NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 probably probably ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 concentrate concentrate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 8 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 9 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 breakfast breakfast NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 differ differ VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 17 too too ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 20 careful careful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 tests test NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 compare compare VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 23 similar similar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **help** | present | Breakfast | | | | | probably *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **concentrate** | infinitive | you | | | | | | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **make** | present | families | breakfast | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Product | | 4 | **differ** | may | families | | | other ways | | | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **compare** | present | careful tests | similar families | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Patient | 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:15`. **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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