Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitions and being sure but wrong, sentence 2
At first it was a sharp sting; by now it is a quiet voice that makes her stop in the middle of her stories; it is an old recording playing on its own, not the truth, and not even what her friend thinks any more.
Who acts: friend, quiet voice, old recording · What happens: be, make, stop, play, think · To what, where: sharp sting, quiet voice, Ava, middle, old recording, own
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 (friend, quiet voice, old recording), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 first | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 sting | obl |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sting | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sting | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sting | det |
| 6 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sting | amod |
| 7 | sting | sting | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 voice | punct |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 now | case |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 voice | obl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 voice | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 voice | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 voice | det |
| 14 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 voice | amod |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sting | parataxis |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 makes | nsubj |
| 17 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 voice | acl:relcl |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stop | obj |
| 19 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 makes | xcomp |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 middle | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 middle | det |
| 22 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stop | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 stories | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 stories | nmod:poss |
| 25 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 middle | nmod |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 recording | punct |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 recording | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 recording | cop |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 recording | det |
| 30 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 recording | amod |
| 31 | recording | recording | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sting | conj |
| 32 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 recording | acl |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 own | case |
| 34 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 own | nmod:poss |
| 35 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 playing | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 truth | punct |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 truth | advmod |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 truth | det |
| 39 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 own | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 what | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 what | cc |
| 42 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 what | advmod |
| 43 | even | even | ADV | _ | 44 what | advmod |
| 44 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 sting | conj |
| 45 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 friend | nmod:poss |
| 46 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 thinks | nsubj |
| 47 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 what | acl:relcl |
| 48 | any | any | ADV | _ | 49 more | advmod |
| 49 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 47 thinks | advmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sting | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | friend | a sharp sting and a old recording | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | friend | a quiet voice | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | present | a quiet voice | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | stop | infinitive | a quiet voice not said here | Ava | the middle of Ava's stories | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality her=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | is a | present | friend | a old recording | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | play | gerund | a old recording not said here | friend's own and the truth | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | think speech: other | present | Ava's friend | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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:2.
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): R5-strong ×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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