Olympiad: thinking traps and what helps first ★★★, sentence 5

A thinking trap is a habit of thought that bends the truth, making things seem worse, bigger or more certain than they are.

Who acts: thinking trap, habit, things, traps · What happens: be, bend, make, seem · To what, where: habit, truth

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: thinking traps and what helps first ★★★» 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 (thinking trap, habit, things, traps), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 trap	det
2	thinking	thinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 trap	compound
3	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 habit	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 habit	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 habit	det
6	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 thought	case
8	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 habit	nmod
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 bends	nsubj
10	bends	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 habit	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 truth	det
12	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bends	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 making	punct
14	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 bends	advcl
15	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 seem	nsubj
16	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 making	conj
17	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 seem	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 bigger	punct
19	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 worse	conj
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 certain	cc
21	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 certain	advmod
22	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 bigger	conj
23	than	than	SCONJ	_	25 are	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 are	nsubj
25	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 certain	advcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 habit	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a thinking trap	a habit	of thought	tree rules
2	bend	present	a habit	the truth		vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent truth=Material
3	make	gerund	a habit not said here			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	seem	present	things		bad property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	does	present	traps = trap			vn exist-47.1 «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:032-olympiad-thinking-traps-and-what-helps-first.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): R5-strong ×1, 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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