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description: One sentence said in a bad moment can move into your head and live there: a month ago Ava's best friend snapped, "You're so annoying," they made up the very next day, and yet every time Ava talks a bit too long she hears it: "Shut up, Ava. Who acts: One sentence, best friend, You, they. A sentence o
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# Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitions and being sure but wrong, sentence 0

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One sentence said in a bad moment can move into your head and live there: a month ago Ava's best friend snapped, "You're so annoying," they made up the very next day, and yet every time Ava talks a bit too long she hears it: "Shut up, Ava.

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**Who acts:** One sentence, best friend, You, they, time Ava, Ava · **What happens:** say, move, live, snap, be, make up · **To what, where:** head, bit · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (One sentence, best friend, You, they), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:027-tricks-the-mind-plays-inner-voices-superstitions-and-being-sure-but-wrong.lesson:0
# text = One sentence said in a bad moment can move into your head and live there: a month ago Ava's best friend snapped, "You're so annoying," they made up the very next day, and yet every time Ava talks a bit too long she hears it: "Shut up, Ava.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 027-tricks-the-mind-plays-inner-voices-superstitions-and-being-sure-but-wrong.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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
15	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:obl:unmarked
19	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advmod
20	Ava	Ava	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	_
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	amod	_	_
23	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	snapped	snap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
27	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	annoying	annoying	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
35	up	up	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	very	very	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl:unmarked	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
42	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
43	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	44	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=45:det
44	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	Ava	Ava	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
46	talks	talk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
49	too	too	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
50	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	46	advmod	_	_
51	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	hears	hear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	advcl	_	_
53	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obj	_	_
54	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	56	punct	_	_
55	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	56	punct	_	_
56	Shut	shut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	46	conj	_	_
57	up	up	ADP	RP	_	56	compound:prt	_	_
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
59	Ava	Ava	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	vocative	_	_
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | One sentence |  |  |  | moment |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **move** | can |  |  |  | your head |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into head=Trajectory |
| 3 | **live** | infinitive |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **snap** | past | Ava's best friend |  |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | You |  |  |  |  | annoying *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **make up** | past | they |  |  |  | day |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **talk** | present | time Ava | a bit |  |  |  | long *property* | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent bit=Patient |
| 8 | **hear** | present | Ava | bit |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 9 | **shut up** *in a quote* | infinitive | time Ava *not said here* |  |  |  |  | Ava *vocative* | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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 ×4, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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