--- title: People often go along with a crowd, even laughing at jokes they don'… — Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitio… · tree and pragmatics description: People often go along with a crowd, even laughing at jokes they don't find funny; noticing the pull is the first step to choosing differently. Who acts: People, noticing. 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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 (People, noticing), 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:10 # text = People often go along with a crowd, even laughing at jokes they don't find funny; noticing the pull is the first step to choosing differently. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 often often ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 along along ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 crowd crowd NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 even even ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:acl 11 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 jokes joke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl:relcl _ _ 17 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 19 noticing notice VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 csubj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 pull pull NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 25 amod _ _ 25 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 26 to to SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:mark|HaikuPos=PART:TO:_ 27 choosing choose VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:advcl 28 differently differently ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **go along** | present | People | | | | | with a crowd; along, often *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with crowd=Beneficiary | | 2 | **laugh** | gerund | People *not said here* | | | jokes | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **find** | present · do-support | People | jokes *not said here* | | | | funny *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joke=Topic | | 4 | **notice** | gerund | | the pull | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer pull=Stimulus | | 5 | **is a** | present | noticing | the first step | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **choose** | gerund | People *not said here* | | | | | differently *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:reflection:027-tricks-the-mind-plays-inner-voices-superstitions-and-being-sure-but-wrong.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, R8-pos-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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