Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitions and being sure but wrong, sentence 9
Superstitions feel true because we remember the times they seemed to work and forget the times they did not.
Who acts: Superstitions, we · What happens: feel, remember, seem, work, forget · To what, where: times
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 (Superstitions, 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 | Superstitions | superstition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 feel | nsubj |
| 2 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 feel | xcomp |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 6 remember | mark |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 remember | nsubj |
| 6 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 feel | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 times | det |
| 8 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 remember | obj |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 seemed | nsubj |
| 10 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 times | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 work | mark |
| 12 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 seemed | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 forget | cc |
| 14 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 work | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 times | det |
| 16 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 forget | obj |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 did | nsubj |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 times | acl:relcl |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 did | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | Superstitions | true property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | remember | present | we | time | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | Superstitions = superstition | the times not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | work | to-infinitive | Superstitions = superstition not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | forget | infinitive | Superstitions = superstition not said here | time | tree rules |
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:9.
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 ×1, 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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