Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitions and being sure but wrong, sentence 4

The mind plays other tricks too: rare things on the news feel common, a lucky pencil seems to work because we remember only the hits, the crowd's laugh pulls ours out, and being sure can still be wrong, as when Grace nearly told everyone her friend stole, and it was a different girl in the same coat.

Who acts: mind, rare things, lucky pencil, we, laugh, Grace · What happens: play, feel, seem, work, remember, pull out · To what, where: other tricks, hits, ours, everyone, different girl, same coat · 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 (mind, rare things, lucky pencil, we), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mind	det
2	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plays	nsubj
3	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tricks	amod
5	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 plays	obj
6	too	too	ADV	_	3 plays	advmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 plays	punct
8	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 things	amod
9	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 feel	nsubj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 news	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 news	det
12	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 things	nmod
13	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 plays	parataxis
14	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 feel	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 seems	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 pencil	det
17	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 pencil	amod
18	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 seems	nsubj
19	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 things	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 work	mark
21	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 seems	xcomp
22	because	because	SCONJ	_	24 remember	mark
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 remember	nsubj
24	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 work	advcl
25	only	only	ADV	_	27 hits	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 hits	det
27	hits	hit	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 remember	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 pulls	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 crowd	det
30	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 laugh	nmod:poss
31	's	's	PART	_	30 crowd	case
32	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 pulls	nsubj
33	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 things	conj
34	ours	our	PRON	Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 pulls	obj
35	out	out	ADP	_	33 pulls	compound:prt
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 wrong	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 wrong	cc
38	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 wrong	cop
39	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 wrong	amod
40	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 wrong	aux
41	still	still	ADV	_	43 wrong	advmod
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 wrong	cop
43	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 things	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 told	punct
45	as	as	SCONJ	_	49 told	mark
46	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	49 told	advmod
47	Grace	Grace	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 told	nsubj
48	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	49 told	advmod
49	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 wrong	advcl
50	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	49 told	iobj
51	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 friend	nmod:poss
52	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 stole	nsubj
53	stole	stole	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 told	ccomp
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 girl	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 girl	cc
56	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 girl	nsubj
57	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 girl	cop
58	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	60 girl	det
59	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 girl	amod
60	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 told	conj
61	in	in	ADP	_	64 coat	case
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 coat	det
63	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 coat	amod
64	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 girl	nmod
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 plays	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	play	present	the mind	other tricks					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme
2	feel	present	rare things on the news					common property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	seem	present	a lucky pencil						vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	work	to-infinitive	a lucky pencil not said here						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	remember	present	we	the hits					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent hit=Theme
6	pull out	present	the crowd's laugh	ours					tree rules
7	is	can · gerund	rare things on the news not said here				still	wrong property	tree rules
8	tell speech: assert	past	Grace		everyone			nearly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient clause=Topic
9	stole	past	Grace's friend						tree rules
10	is a	past	laugh	a different girl		the same coat			tree rules
11	laugh		the crowd						nom laugh «communication intransitive»: poss=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.

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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 ×2. 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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