--- title: The "Bloody Mary" mirror story is not real; staring into a mirror in… — I was wrong: changing your mind · tree and pragmatics description: The "Bloody Mary" mirror story is not real; staring into a mirror in dim light makes the brain see strange faces, which is a trick of the eyes and brain. Who acts: Mary mirror story, staring, brain, strange faces. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mary mirror story, staring, brain, strange faces), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:035-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind.lesson:10 # text = The "Bloody Mary" mirror story is not real; staring into a mirror in dim light makes the brain see strange faces, which is a trick of the eyes and brain. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 035-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind.lesson # annotation = 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 ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 3 Bloody bloody ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 Mary Mary PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 mirror mirror NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 staring stare VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:nsubj 13 into into ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 mirror mirror NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 dim dim ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod 19 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 23 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 acl:relcl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **not** **is** | present | the Mary mirror story | | | | | real *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **stare** | gerund | | | | | | in dim light; into a mirror | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into mirror=Theme | | 3 | **make** | present | staring | the brain | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **see** | infinitive | the brain *not said here* | strange faces | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus | | 5 | **is a** | present | strange faces | a trick | | | | of the eyes and brain | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:myths:035-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind.lesson:10`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [I was wrong: changing your mind, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/35-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind/9/) - next →: [I was wrong: changing your mind, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/35-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/35-i-was-wrong-changing-your-mind/)