Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitions and being sure but wrong, sentence 13

Eyes and memory can trick us; being sure doesn't always mean being right, so it is wise to check before telling others.

Who acts: Eyes · What happens: trick, be, not mean, check, tell · To what, where: us, others · 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 (Eyes), 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	Eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 trick	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 memory	cc
3	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Eyes	conj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 trick	aux
5	trick	trick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 trick	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 trick	punct
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 sure	cop
9	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mean	csubj
10	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 mean	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 mean	advmod
12	always	always	ADV	_	13 mean	advmod
13	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 trick	parataxis
14	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mean	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wise	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	20 wise	advmod
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wise	expl
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 wise	cop
20	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 trick	parataxis
21	to	to	PART	_	22 check	mark
22	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 wise	csubj
23	before	before	SCONJ	_	24 telling	mark
24	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 check	advcl
25	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 telling	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 trick	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	trick	can	Eyes and memory	us		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient
2	is	gerund			sure property	tree rules
3	not mean	present · do-support			always property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	is not said to happen	gerund			right property	tree rules
5	is	present			wise property	tree rules
6	check	to-infinitive				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	tell speech: assert	gerund		others		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent other=Recipient

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:13.

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): no change. 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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