Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitions and being sure but wrong, sentence 11
Bedwetting is common in children, even at nine or ten, and is nothing to be ashamed of; one bad memory can make you fear the same situation, and talking about it shrinks the fear.
Who acts: Bedwetting, one bad memory, you, talking · What happens: be, asham, make, fear, talk, shrink · To what, where: nine, nothing, you, same situation, fear
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 (Bedwetting, one bad memory, you, talking), 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 | Bedwetting | bedwetting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 common | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 common | cop |
| 3 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 children | case |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 common | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 nine | punct |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 nine | advmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 nine | case |
| 9 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 common | obl |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 ten | cc |
| 11 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 nine | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 nothing | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 nothing | cc |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 nothing | cop |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 common | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 ashamed | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 ashamed | aux:pass |
| 18 | ashamed | asham | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 nothing | acl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 ashamed | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 common | punct |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 memory | nummod |
| 22 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 memory | amod |
| 23 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 make | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 make | aux |
| 25 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 common | parataxis |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 make | obj |
| 27 | fear | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 make | xcomp |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 situation | det |
| 29 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 situation | amod |
| 30 | situation | situation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fear | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 shrinks | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 shrinks | cc |
| 33 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 shrinks | csubj |
| 34 | about | about | ADP | _ | 35 it | case |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 talking | obl |
| 36 | shrinks | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 make | conj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 fear | det |
| 38 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 shrinks | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 common | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Bedwetting | nine | in children; common property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | Bedwetting not said here | nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | asham | to-infinitive · passive | Bedwetting not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | make | can | one bad memory | you | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fear | infinitive | you not said here | the same situation | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer situation=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | talk | gerund | about memory | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | |||||
| 7 | shrink | present | talking | the fear | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fear=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, 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:11.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.
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