--- title: Bedwetting is common in children, even at nine or ten, and is nothin… — Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitio… · tree and pragmatics description: Bedwetting is common in children, even at nine or ten, and is nothing to be ashamed of; one bad memory can make you fear the same situation, and talking about it shrinks the fear. Who acts: Bedwetting, one bad memory, you, talking. 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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 (Bedwetting, one bad memory, you, talking), 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:11 # text = Bedwetting is common in children, even at nine or ten, and is nothing to be ashamed of; one bad memory can make you fear the same situation, and talking about it shrinks the fear. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Bedwetting bedwetting NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 even even ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 obl _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 3 conj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 17 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 ashamed asham VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:acl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 19 of of ADP IN _ 18 obl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 21 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 22 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 memory memory NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 fear fear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 situation situation NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 talking talk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 36 csubj _ _ 34 about about ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ _ 36 shrinks shrink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Bedwetting | | | nine | | in children; common *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | Bedwetting *not said here* | nothing | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **asham** | to-infinitive · passive | Bedwetting *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | can | one bad memory | you | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **fear** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the same situation | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer situation=Stimulus | | 6 | **talk** | gerund | | | | | | about memory | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | | 7 | **shrink** | present | talking | the fear | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fear=Patient | 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:11`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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