Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitions and being sure but wrong, sentence 0
One sentence said in a bad moment can move into your head and live there: a month ago Ava's best friend snapped, "You're so annoying," they made up the very next day, and yet every time Ava talks a bit too long she hears it: "Shut up, Ava.
Who acts: One sentence, best friend, You, they, time Ava, Ava · What happens: say, move, live, snap, be, make up · To what, where: head, bit · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitions and being sure but wrong» of the reflection 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 (One sentence, best friend, You, they), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 sentence | nummod |
| 2 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 moment | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 moment | det |
| 6 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 moment | amod |
| 7 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 move | aux |
| 9 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 head | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 move | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 live | cc |
| 14 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 move | conj |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 live | advmod |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 month | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 month | det |
| 18 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 24 snapped | advmod |
| 20 | Ava | Ava | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 friend | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 Ava | case |
| 22 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 friend | amod |
| 23 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 snapped | nsubj |
| 24 | snapped | snap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 annoying | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 annoying | punct |
| 27 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 annoying | nsubj |
| 28 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 annoying | cop |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 annoying | advmod |
| 30 | annoying | annoying | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 snapped | ccomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 annoying | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 annoying | punct |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 made | nsubj |
| 34 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 snapped | conj |
| 35 | up | up | ADP | _ | 34 made | compound:prt |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 day | det |
| 37 | very | very | ADV | _ | 38 next | advmod |
| 38 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 day | amod |
| 39 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 made | obl:unmarked |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 talks | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 talks | cc |
| 42 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 45 Ava | advmod |
| 43 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 44 time | det |
| 44 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 Ava | compound |
| 45 | Ava | Ava | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 talks | nsubj |
| 46 | talks | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 bit | det |
| 48 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 talks | obj |
| 49 | too | too | ADV | _ | 50 long | advmod |
| 50 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 46 talks | advmod |
| 51 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 hears | nsubj |
| 52 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 50 long | advcl |
| 53 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 hears | obj |
| 54 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 56 Shut | punct |
| 55 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 56 Shut | punct |
| 56 | Shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 46 talks | conj |
| 57 | up | up | ADP | _ | 56 Shut | compound:prt |
| 58 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 Ava | punct |
| 59 | Ava | Ava | PROPN | Number=Sing | 56 Shut | vocative |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | One sentence | moment | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | move | can | your head | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into head=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | live | infinitive | there | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | snap | past | Ava's best friend | ago property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | You | annoying property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | make up | past | they | day | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | talk | present | time Ava | a bit | long property | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent bit=Patient | |||
| 8 | hear | present | Ava | bit | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 9 | shut up in a quote | infinitive | time Ava not said here | Ava vocative | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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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 ×4, R7-rel-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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