Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitions and being sure but wrong, sentence 17
"Touch wood" and "jinx" are sayings people use as if words could bring luck or bad luck; they cannot change what happens.
Who acts: Touch wood, people, words · What happens: be, use, bring, not change, happen · To what, where: sayings, luck
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 (Touch wood, people, words), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wood | punct |
| 2 | Touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wood | compound |
| 3 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sayings | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wood | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 jinx | cc |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 jinx | punct |
| 7 | jinx | jinx | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wood | conj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 jinx | punct |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 sayings | cop |
| 10 | sayings | saying | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 use | nsubj |
| 12 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 sayings | acl:relcl |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 bring | mark |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 bring | mark |
| 15 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 bring | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 bring | aux |
| 17 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 use | advcl |
| 18 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bring | obj |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 luck | cc |
| 20 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 luck | amod |
| 21 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 luck | conj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 change | punct |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 change | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 change | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 change | advmod |
| 26 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sayings | parataxis |
| 27 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 28 happens | nsubj |
| 28 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 change | ccomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sayings | 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 | is a | present | Touch wood and jinx | sayings | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | use | present | people | sayings not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saying=Patient | ||||
| 3 | bring | could | words | luck or bad luck | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent luck=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not change | can | People | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | happen | present | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:17.
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. 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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