Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitions and being sure but wrong, sentence 6
An inner critic is the mean voice in your head; it can replay someone's words long after they meant them, and it is not the truth.
Who acts: inner critic, critic, words, someone · What happens: be, replay, mean, not be, word · To what, where: mean voice, head, words, things, truth
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 (inner critic, critic, words, someone), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 critic | det |
| 2 | inner | inner | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 critic | amod |
| 3 | critic | critic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 voice | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 voice | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 voice | det |
| 6 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 voice | amod |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 head | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 voice | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 replay | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 replay | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 replay | aux |
| 14 | replay | replay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 voice | parataxis |
| 15 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 words | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 someone | case |
| 17 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 replay | obj |
| 18 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 replay | advmod |
| 19 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 21 meant | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 meant | nsubj |
| 21 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 replay | advcl |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 meant | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 truth | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 truth | cc |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 truth | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 truth | cop |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 truth | advmod |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 truth | det |
| 29 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 replay | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 voice | 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 | a inner critic | the mean voice | your head | tree rules | |||
| 2 | replay | can | critic | someone's words | long property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | |||
| 3 | mean | past | words = word | things = thing | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | ||||
| 4 | not is a | present | critic | the truth | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | word | someone | nom word «communication transitive»: 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.
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:6.
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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