Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitions and being sure but wrong, sentence 15
Most people don't notice small things like a spot; feeling that everyone sees it is called being self-conscious.
Who acts: Most people, everyone · What happens: not notice, feel, see, call, be · To what, where: small things, spot · 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 (Most people, everyone), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 notice | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 notice | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 notice | advmod |
| 5 | notice | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 things | amod |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 notice | obj |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 spot | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 spot | det |
| 10 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 things | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 feeling | punct |
| 12 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 called | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 sees | mark |
| 14 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 15 sees | nsubj |
| 15 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 feeling | ccomp |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sees | obj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 called | aux:pass |
| 18 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 notice | parataxis |
| 19 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 conscious | cop |
| 20 | self | self | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 conscious | amod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 self | punct |
| 22 | conscious | conscious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 called | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 notice | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not notice | present · do-support | Most people | small things | like a spot | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | feel | gerund | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | see | present | everyone | spot | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | call | present · passive | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||||
| 5 | is | gerund | conscious property | tree rules |
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:15.
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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