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title: Two things happening together does not prove that one causes the oth… — Being a scientist — fair tests, guesses and evid… · tree and pragmatics
description: Two things happening together does not prove that one causes the other. Who acts: Two things, one. A sentence of the lesson «Being a scientist — fair tests, guesses and evidence» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Being a scientist — fair tests, guesses and evidence, sentence 13

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Two things happening together does not prove that one causes the other.

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**Who acts:** Two things, one · **What happens:** happen, not prove, cause · **To what, where:** other

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Being a scientist — fair tests, guesses and evidence» 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 (Two things, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:091-being-a-scientist.lesson:13
# text = Two things happening together does not prove that one causes the other.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 091-being-a-scientist.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
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	happening	happen	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	together	together	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod
5	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nsubj	_	_
10	causes	cause	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | gerund | Two things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **prove** | present · do-support | Two things |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **cause** | present | one | the other |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition other=Patient |

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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:091-being-a-scientist.lesson:13`.

**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. **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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