I was wrong: changing your mind, sentence 10
The "Bloody Mary" mirror story is not real; staring into a mirror in dim light makes the brain see strange faces, which is a trick of the eyes and brain.
Who acts: Mary mirror story, staring, brain, strange faces · What happens: not be, stare, make, see, be · To what, where: brain, strange faces, trick
This is a sentence of the lesson «I was wrong: changing your mind» of the myths 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 (Mary mirror story, staring, brain, strange faces), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Mary | punct |
| 3 | Bloody | bloody | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Mary | amod |
| 4 | Mary | Mary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 story | compound |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Mary | punct |
| 6 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 story | compound |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 real | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 real | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 real | advmod |
| 10 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 staring | punct |
| 12 | staring | stare | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 makes | csubj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 mirror | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 mirror | det |
| 15 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 staring | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 light | case |
| 17 | dim | dim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 light | amod |
| 18 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 staring | obl |
| 19 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 real | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 brain | det |
| 21 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 makes | obj |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 makes | xcomp |
| 23 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 faces | amod |
| 24 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 see | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 trick | punct |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 trick | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 trick | cop |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 trick | det |
| 29 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 faces | acl:relcl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 eyes | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 eyes | det |
| 32 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 trick | nmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 brain | cc |
| 34 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 eyes | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 real | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | the Mary mirror story | real property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stare | gerund | in dim light; into a mirror | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into mirror=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make | present | staring | the brain | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | infinitive | the brain not said here | strange faces | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | strange faces | a trick | of the eyes and brain | tree rules |
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, 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:myths:035-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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.
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