--- title: Then check which way the arrow points: big fires get more firefighte… — Correlation is not cause: ice cream and sunburn · tree and pragmatics description: Then check which way the arrow points: big fires get more firefighters and do more damage; hospitals are full of ill people because ill people go there to get better. Who acts: you, arrow, big fires, hospitals. 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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 (you, arrow, big fires, hospitals), 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:5 # text = Then check which way the arrow points: big fires get more firefighters and do more damage; hospitals are full of ill people because ill people go there to get better. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ _ 2 check check VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 4 det _ _ 4 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det 6 arrow arrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:compound 7 points point NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 fires fire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 12 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 amod _ _ 13 firefighters firefighter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 16 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 amod _ _ 17 damage damage NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 hospitals hospital NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 25 because because SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 29 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 28 advmod _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 32 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 31 xcomp _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **check** | imperative | you *not said here* | which way | | | then | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | | 2 | **point** | | the arrow | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **get** | present | big fires | more firefighters | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer firefighter=Stimulus | | 4 | **do** | present | big fires *not said here* | more damage | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent damage=Eventuality | | 5 | **is** | present | hospitals | | | | | of ill people; full *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **go** | present | ill people | | | there | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **get** | to-infinitive | ill people *not said here* | | | | | good *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:5`. **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 ×1, 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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