--- title: Words people use: "sick" (young people) means great; "ace" means do… — Correlation is not cause: ice cream and sunburn · tree and pragmatics description: Words people use: "sick" (young people) means great; "ace" means do really well at; "it's giving" means "it looks like"; "no cap" means honestly; "a Magnum" is an ice cream on a stick; "dreich" (Scotland) means grey, wet weather; "motor" (UK) means car; "togs" (Australia) means swimming costume; "he --- [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/21/) [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/) / 21 # Correlation is not cause: ice cream and sunburn, sentence 21 Words people use: "sick" (young people) means great; "ace" means do really well at; "it's giving" means "it looks like"; "no cap" means honestly; "a Magnum" is an ice cream on a stick; "dreich" (Scotland) means grey, wet weather; "motor" (UK) means car; "togs" (Australia) means swimming costume; "heaps" (Australia, NZ) means lots. **Who acts:** people, ace, cap, Magnum, motor, togs · **What happens:** use, mean, do, give, look, be · **To what, where:** Words, great, ice cream, stick, grey wet weather, car · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (people, ace, cap, Magnum), 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:21 # text = Words people use: "sick" (young people) means great; "ace" means do really well at; "it's giving" means "it looks like"; "no cap" means honestly; "a Magnum" is an ice cream on a stick; "dreich" (Scotland) means grey, wet weather; "motor" (UK) means car; "togs" (Australia) means swimming costume; "heaps" (Australia, NZ) means lots. # 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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 advcl _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 9 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 11 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 12 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:xcomp 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 16 ace ace NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 18 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 19 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 ccomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 really really ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 19 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advmod 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 advcl _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 29 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 30 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 ccomp _ _ 33 like like SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 35 ; ; PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 36 " " PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=38:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 37 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 38 det _ _ 38 cap cap NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ 40 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 41 honestly honestly ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 42 ; ; PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 43 " " PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 Magnum Magnum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 nsubj _ _ 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 45 punct _ _ 47 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 50 cop _ _ 48 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 compound _ _ 50 cream cream NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 ccomp _ _ 51 on on ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 52 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nmod _ _ 54 ; ; PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 55 " " PUNCT `` _ 56 punct _ _ 56 dreich dreich NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 conj _ _ 57 " " PUNCT '' _ 56 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=53:punct 58 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 59 punct _ _ 59 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 56 appos _ _ 60 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 59 punct _ _ 61 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 62 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 65 amod _ _ 63 , , PUNCT , _ 62 punct _ _ 64 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 65 amod _ _ 65 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 obj _ _ 66 ; ; PUNCT , _ 68 punct _ _ 67 " " PUNCT `` _ 68 punct _ _ 68 motor motor NOUN NN Number=Sing 73 nsubj _ _ 69 " " PUNCT '' _ 68 punct _ _ 70 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 71 punct _ _ 71 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 68 appos _ _ 72 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 71 punct _ _ 73 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 74 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 73 obj _ _ 75 ; ; PUNCT , _ 82 punct _ _ 76 " " PUNCT `` _ 77 punct _ _ 77 togs tog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 82 nsubj _ _ 78 " " PUNCT '' _ 77 punct _ _ 79 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 80 punct _ _ 80 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 77 appos _ _ 81 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 80 punct _ _ 82 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 83 swimming swimming NOUN NN Number=Sing 84 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=82:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 84 costume costume NOUN NN Number=Sing 82 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=83:obj 85 ; ; PUNCT , _ 94 punct _ _ 86 " " PUNCT `` _ 87 punct _ _ 87 heaps heap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 94 nsubj _ _ 88 " " PUNCT '' _ 87 punct _ _ 89 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 90 punct _ _ 90 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 87 appos _ _ 91 , , PUNCT , _ 92 punct _ _ 92 NZ NZ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 90 conj _ _ 93 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 90 punct _ _ 94 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 95 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 94 obj _ _ 96 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | people | Words | | | | young people *obl* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | | 2 | **mean** | present | | great | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent great=Topic | | 3 | **mean** | present | ace | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **do** | infinitive | | | | | | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **give** *in a quote* | present · progressive | ace | | | | | | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **look** *in a quote* | present | ace | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 8 | **mean** | present | no cap | | | | | honestly *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **is a** | present | a Magnum | a ice cream | | a stick and dreich | | | tree rules | | 10 | **mean** | present | | grey wet weather | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weather=Topic | | 11 | **mean** | present | motor | car | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Topic | | 12 | **mean** | present | togs | swimming costume | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent costume=Topic | | 13 | **mean** | present | heaps | lots | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=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:21`. **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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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