--- title: Washing a car can't change the weather; remembering only the times t… — Correlation is not cause: ice cream and sunburn · tree and pragmatics description: Washing a car can't change the weather; remembering only the times that match what you believe is called confirmation bias. Who acts: Washing, times, you, remembering. 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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 (Washing, times, you, remembering), 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:17 # text = Washing a car can't change the weather; remembering only the times that match what you believe is called confirmation bias. # 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 Washing wash VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 10 remembering remember VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 csubj:pass _ _ 11 only only ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 match match VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 15 obj _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 believe believe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 21 confirmation confirmation NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 bias bias NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 xcomp _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wash** | gerund | | a car | | | | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Patient | | 2 | **not** **change** | can | Washing | the weather | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weather=Patient | | 3 | **remember** | gerund | | | | | time | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **match** | present | the times | the times | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | | 5 | **believe** | present | you | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive | remembering | confirmation bias | | | | | 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:17`. **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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