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title: Older children have bigger feet AND read better, because they are ol… — Correlation is not cause: ice cream and sunburn · tree and pragmatics
description: Older children have bigger feet AND read better, because they are older. Who acts: Older children, children. A sentence of the lesson «Correlation is not cause: ice cream and sunburn» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Correlation is not cause: ice cream and sunburn, sentence 3

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Older children have bigger feet AND read better, because they are older.

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**Who acts:** Older children, children · **What happens:** have, read, be · **To what, where:** bigger feet

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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 (Older children, children), 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:3
# text = Older children have bigger feet AND read better, because they are older.
# 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	Older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
8	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	advcl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Older children | bigger feet |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient |
| 2 | **read** | infinitive | Older children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:3`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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