--- title: More people drown in summer because more people swim in hot weather;… — Correlation is not cause: ice cream and sunburn · tree and pragmatics description: More people drown in summer because more people swim in hot weather; swimming where there are lifeguards matters far more than what you eat. Who acts: More people, lifeguards, you. A sentence of the lesson «Correlation is not cause: ice cream and sunburn» of the world course of Mova's primary school --- [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/20/) [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/) / 20 # Correlation is not cause: ice cream and sunburn, sentence 20 More people drown in summer because more people swim in hot weather; swimming where there are lifeguards matters far more than what you eat. **Who acts:** More people, lifeguards, you · **What happens:** drown, swim, be, matter, eat · **To what, where:** hot weather, more 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 (More people, lifeguards, you), 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:20 # text = More people drown in summer because more people swim in hot weather; swimming where there are lifeguards matters far more than what you eat. # 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 ×2 1 More more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 amod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 drown drown VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 because because SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 amod _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 swim swim VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 swimming swim VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 nsubj _ _ 15 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 17 advmod _ _ 16 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 17 expl _ _ 17 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 18 lifeguards lifeguard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 19 matters matter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 20 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 21 advmod _ _ 21 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 22 than than ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 19 obl _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 . . 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 | **drown** | present | More people | | | | summer | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **swim** | present | more people | | | hot weather | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in weather=Trajectory | | 3 | **swim** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **does** | present | lifeguards | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **matter** | present | | more | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **eat** | present | you | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «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:20`. **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 ×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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