--- title: A real 2012 article in a medical journal pointed out that countries… — Correlation is not cause: ice cream and sunburn · tree and pragmatics description: A real 2012 article in a medical journal pointed out that countries eating more chocolate win more Nobel Prizes (the most famous prizes for science), partly as a joke; wealth explains both. Who acts: real 2012 article, countries, wealth. 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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 (real 2012 article, countries, wealth), 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:18 # text = A real 2012 article in a medical journal pointed out that countries eating more chocolate win more Nobel Prizes (the most famous prizes for science), partly as a joke; wealth explains both. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 2012 2012 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 compound _ _ 4 article article NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 medical medical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 journal journal NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 9 pointed point VERB VBD Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 out out ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 12 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 13 eating eat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 acl _ _ 14 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 amod _ _ 15 chocolate chocolate NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 win win VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 17 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 amod _ _ 18 Nobel Nobel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 Prizes prize PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 16 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 20 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 23 advmod _ _ 23 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 prizes prize NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 appos _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 science science NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 partly partly ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 30 as as ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 wealth wealth NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 explains explain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 36 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 35 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **point out** | past | a real 2012 article in a medical journal | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **eat** | gerund | countries *not said here* | more chocolate | | | | partly *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chocolate=Patient | | 3 | **win** | present | countries | more Nobel Prizes | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Eventuality | | 4 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | wealth | both | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=Topic | 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:18`. **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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