--- title: "If it rains, the grass is wet" does not mean "if the grass is wet,… — "If... then..." and its traps · tree and pragmatics description: "If it rains, the grass is wet" does not mean "if the grass is wet, it rained"; sprinklers, dew and dogs wet grass too. Who acts: it, grass, sprinklers. 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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 (it, grass, sprinklers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:184-if-then-and-its-traps.lesson:10 # text = "If it rains, the grass is wet" does not mean "if the grass is wet, it rained"; sprinklers, dew and dogs wet grass too. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 184-if-then-and-its-traps.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 2 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 rains rain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 ccomp _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 mean mean VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 15 if if SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 advcl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 rained rain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 25 sprinklers sprinkler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 dew dew NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=27:conj 30 wet wet VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 31 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 32 too too ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rain** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | it | | | | | | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the grass | | | | | wet *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | the grass | | | | | wet *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **rain** *in a quote* | past | it | | | | | | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | | 6 | **wet** | present | sprinklers and dew and dogs | grass | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent grass=Patient | 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:184-if-then-and-its-traps.lesson:10`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: ["If... then..." and its traps, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/184-if-then-and-its-traps/9/) - next →: ["If... then..." and its traps, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/184-if-then-and-its-traps/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/184-if-then-and-its-traps/)