Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitions and being sure but wrong, sentence 7

Answering the inner critic with "That's not true" and checking with the real person usually makes the voice quieter over weeks.

Who acts: That, Answering · What happens: answer, not be, check, make · To what, where: inner critic · 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 (That, Answering), 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	Answering	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 makes	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 critic	det
3	inner	inner	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 critic	amod
4	critic	critic	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Answering	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	10 true	case
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 true	punct
7	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 true	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 true	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 true	advmod
10	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Answering	advcl
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 true	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 checking	cc
13	checking	check	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Answering	conj
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 person	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 person	det
16	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 person	amod
17	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 checking	obl
18	usually	usually	ADV	_	19 makes	advmod
19	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 voice	det
21	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 quieter	nsubj
22	quieter	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 makes	xcomp
23	over	over	ADP	_	24 weeks	case
24	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 makes	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 makes	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	gerund		the inner critic			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent critic=Eventuality
2	not is in a quote	present	That			true property	tree rules
3	check	gerund				with the real person	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	make	present	Answering		week	quiet, usually property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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:7.

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 ×2, 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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