Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitions and being sure but wrong, sentence 8
The news shows rare, scary events, which makes them feel common; flying is one of the safest ways to travel, and thousands of planes land safely every day.
Who acts: news, rare scary events, events, thousands · What happens: show, make, feel, fly, be, travel · To what, where: rare scary events, events, one
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 (news, rare scary events, events, thousands), 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 news | det |
| 2 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 events | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 rare | punct |
| 6 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 events | amod |
| 7 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shows | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 makes | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 makes | nsubj |
| 10 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 events | acl:relcl |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 makes | obj |
| 12 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 makes | xcomp |
| 13 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 feel | xcomp |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 one | punct |
| 15 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 one | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 one | cop |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 shows | parataxis |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 ways | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ways | det |
| 20 | safest | safe | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 ways | amod |
| 21 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 one | nmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 travel | mark |
| 23 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 ways | acl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 land | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 land | cc |
| 26 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 land | nsubj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 planes | case |
| 28 | planes | plane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 thousands | nmod |
| 29 | land | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 one | conj |
| 30 | safely | safely | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 land | advmod |
| 31 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 day | det |
| 32 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 land | obl:unmarked |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | the news | rare scary events | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent event=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | make | present | rare scary events | events = event | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | feel | infinitive | events = event not said here | common property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | is a | present | one | of the safest ways | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | travel | to-infinitive | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | land | present | thousands of planes | day | safely property | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=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:8.
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): no change. 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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