Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitions and being sure but wrong, sentence 14

Daydreaming is normal and good for imagination, but it can make you miss instructions; writing them down or sitting nearer the front helps.

Who acts: Daydreaming, you, writing · What happens: be, make, miss, write down, sit, help · To what, where: you, instructions

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 (Daydreaming, you, writing), 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	Daydreaming	daydreaming	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 normal	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 normal	cop
3	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 good	cc
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 normal	conj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 imagination	case
7	imagination	imagination	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 normal	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 make	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 make	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 make	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 make	aux
12	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 normal	conj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 make	obj
14	miss	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 make	xcomp
15	instructions	instruction	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 miss	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 writing	punct
17	writing	write	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 helps	csubj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 writing	obj
19	down	down	ADP	_	17 writing	compound:prt
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 sitting	cc
21	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 writing	conj
22	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 sitting	xcomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 front	det
24	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 nearer	obl
25	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 normal	parataxis
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 normal	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Daydreaming		for imagination; normal property	tree rules
2	be		Daydreaming not said here			tree rules
3	make	can	Daydreaming	you		tree rules
4	miss	infinitive	you not said here	instructions		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer instruction=Stimulus
5	write down	gerund		instructions = instruction		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	sit	gerund			near property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	help	present	writing			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:14.

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): R1-cc-next ×3. 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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