Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitions and being sure but wrong, sentence 16
Dreams can be strange and mixed up; dreaming about doing something bad does not make you a bad person.
Who acts: Dreams, dreaming · What happens: be, mix up, dream, do, not make · To what, where: something, you
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 (Dreams, dreaming), 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 | Dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 strange | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 strange | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 strange | cop |
| 4 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 mixed | cc |
| 6 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 strange | conj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 mixed | compound:prt |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 make | punct |
| 9 | dreaming | dream | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 make | csubj |
| 10 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 11 doing | mark |
| 11 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 dreaming | advcl |
| 12 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 doing | obj |
| 13 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 something | amod |
| 14 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 make | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 make | advmod |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 strange | parataxis |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 make | obj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 person | det |
| 19 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 person | amod |
| 20 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 make | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 strange | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | can | Dreams | strange property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mix up | participle | Dreams not said here | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | dream | gerund | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | do | gerund | something | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | not make | present · do-support | dreaming | you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |
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:16.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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