Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitions and being sure but wrong, sentence 12
An urban legend is a made-up scary story that spreads as if it were true; knowing it was invented helps the fear fade.
Who acts: urban legend, made scary story, legend, knowing, fear · What happens: make up, be, spread, know, invent, help · To what, where: made scary story, legend · 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 (urban legend, made scary story, legend, knowing), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 legend | det |
| 2 | urban | urban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 legend | amod |
| 3 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 story | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 story | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 story | det |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 story | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 up | punct |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 made | compound:prt |
| 9 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 story | amod |
| 10 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 spreads | nsubj |
| 12 | spreads | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 story | acl:relcl |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 true | mark |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 true | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 true | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 true | cop |
| 17 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 spreads | advcl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 story | punct |
| 19 | knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 helps | csubj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 invented | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 invented | aux:pass |
| 22 | invented | invent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 knowing | ccomp |
| 23 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 spreads | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fear | det |
| 25 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fade | nsubj |
| 26 | fade | fade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 helps | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 story | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | participle | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | a urban legend | a made scary story | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | spread | present | a made scary story | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | legend | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | know | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 6 | invent | past · passive | legend | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | |||||
| 7 | help | present | knowing | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | fade | infinitive | the fear | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:12.
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): R7-rel-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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