Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitions and being sure but wrong, sentence 3
When she told her friend, the friend said, "I didn't mean it, I was grumpy"; Ava started answering the voice, "That's not true," and over the next weeks it got quieter; going silent had only fed it.
Who acts: Ava, friend, voice, That, going · What happens: tell, say, not mean, be, start, answer · To what, where: friend, recording, voice · 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 (Ava, friend, voice, That), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 told | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | advcl |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 friend | nmod:poss |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | iobj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 friend | det |
| 8 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 mean | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 mean | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 mean | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 mean | aux |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 mean | advmod |
| 15 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 mean | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 mean | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 grumpy | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 grumpy | cop |
| 20 | grumpy | grumpy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 grumpy | punct |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 23 | Ava | Ava | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 started | nsubj |
| 24 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 grumpy | parataxis |
| 25 | answering | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 started | xcomp |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 voice | det |
| 27 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 answering | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 started | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 true | punct |
| 30 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 true | nsubj |
| 31 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 true | cop |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 true | advmod |
| 33 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 grumpy | parataxis |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 true | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 grumpy | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 got | cc |
| 37 | over | over | ADP | _ | 40 weeks | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 weeks | det |
| 39 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 weeks | amod |
| 40 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 got | obl |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 got | nsubj |
| 42 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 43 | quieter | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 42 got | xcomp |
| 44 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 45 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 49 fed | csubj |
| 46 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 going | xcomp |
| 47 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 fed | aux |
| 48 | only | only | ADV | _ | 49 fed | advmod |
| 49 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 said | parataxis |
| 50 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 fed | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Ava | Ava's friend | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not mean in a quote | past · do-support | the friend = friend | recording | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | past | the friend = friend | grumpy property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | start | past | Ava | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | answer speech: assert | gerund | the voice | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | not is in a quote | present | That | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | get | past | voice | week | quiet property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 9 | go | gerund | silent property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 10 | feed | past · perfect | going | voice | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=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:3.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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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