Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitions and being sure but wrong, sentence 5
Knowing the tricks does not switch them off, but it lets you catch them: "Is this a fact, or is it my brain doing that thing again?"
Who acts: Knowing, pencil, you, this, brain · What happens: know, not switch off, let, catch, be, do · To what, where: tricks, you, fact, brain, thing · 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 (Knowing, pencil, you, this), 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 | Knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 switch | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tricks | det |
| 3 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Knowing | obj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 switch | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 switch | advmod |
| 6 | switch | switch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 switch | obj |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 switch | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lets | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 lets | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lets | nsubj |
| 12 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 switch | conj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 lets | obj |
| 14 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 lets | xcomp |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 catch | obj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 fact | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 fact | punct |
| 18 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 fact | cop |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 fact | nsubj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 fact | det |
| 21 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 switch | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 brain | punct |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 brain | cc |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 brain | cop |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 brain | nsubj |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 brain | nmod:poss |
| 27 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fact | conj |
| 28 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 brain | acl |
| 29 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 thing | det |
| 30 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 doing | obj |
| 31 | again | again | ADV | _ | 28 doing | advmod |
| 32 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 27 brain | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 brain | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | gerund | the tricks | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer trick=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not switch off | present · do-support | Knowing | tricks = trick | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | let | present | pencil | you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | catch | infinitive | you not said here | tricks = trick | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | this | a fact or my brain | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | pencil | my brain | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | do in a quote | gerund | my brain not said here | that thing | again | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
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:5.
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): R8-pos-agree ×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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