Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitions and being sure but wrong, sentence 10

People often go along with a crowd, even laughing at jokes they don't find funny; noticing the pull is the first step to choosing differently.

Who acts: People, noticing · What happens: go along, laugh, not find, notice, be, choose · To what, where: jokes, pull, first step

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 (People, noticing), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 go	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 go	advmod
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	along	along	ADV	_	3 go	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 crowd	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 crowd	det
7	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 laughing	punct
9	even	even	ADV	_	10 laughing	advmod
10	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 go	advcl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 jokes	case
12	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 laughing	obl
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 find	nsubj
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 find	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 find	advmod
16	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 jokes	acl:relcl
17	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 find	xcomp
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 step	punct
19	noticing	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 step	csubj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 pull	det
21	pull	pull	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 noticing	obj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 step	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 step	det
24	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	25 step	amod
25	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	parataxis
26	to	to	SCONJ	_	27 choosing	mark
27	choosing	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 step	acl
28	differently	differently	ADV	_	27 choosing	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go along	present	People			with a crowd; along, often property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with crowd=Beneficiary
2	laugh	gerund	People not said here		jokes		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not find	present · do-support	People	jokes not said here		funny property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joke=Topic
4	notice	gerund		the pull			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer pull=Stimulus
5	is a	present	noticing	the first step			tree rules
6	choose	gerund	People not said here			differently property	vn get-13.5.1 «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.

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:reflection:027-tricks-the-mind-plays-inner-voices-superstitions-and-being-sure-but-wrong.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, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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