--- title: An urban legend is a made-up scary story that spreads as if it were… — Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitio… · tree and pragmatics description: An urban legend is a made-up scary story that spreads as if it were true; knowing it was invented helps the fear fade. Who acts: urban legend, made scary story, legend, knowing. A sentence of the lesson «Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitions and being sure but wrong» of the reflection c --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/27-tricks-the-mind-plays-inner-voices-superstitions-and-being-sure-but-wrong/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Reflection](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/) / [Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, s…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/27-tricks-the-mind-plays-inner-voices-superstitions-and-being-sure-but-wrong/) / 12 # Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitions and being sure but wrong, sentence 12 An urban legend is a made-up scary story that spreads as if it were true; knowing it was invented helps the fear fade. **Who acts:** urban legend, made scary story, legend, knowing, fear · **What happens:** make up, be, spread, know, invent, help · **To what, where:** made scary story, legend · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (urban legend, made scary story, legend, knowing), 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:12 # text = An urban legend is a made-up scary story that spreads as if it were true; knowing it was invented helps the fear fade. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 urban urban ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 legend legend NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 6 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 amod _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 9 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 spreads spread VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 as as SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 14 if if SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:xcomp 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 19 knowing know VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 csubj _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 invented invent VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 ccomp _ _ 23 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 fade fade VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make up** | participle | | | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | a urban legend | a made scary story | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **spread** | present | a made scary story | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | past | legend | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **know** | gerund | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **invent** | past · passive | | legend | | | | | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | | 7 | **help** | present | knowing | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 8 | **fade** | infinitive | the fear | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:12`. **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): R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, s…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/27-tricks-the-mind-plays-inner-voices-superstitions-and-being-sure-but-wrong/11/) - next →: [Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, s…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/27-tricks-the-mind-plays-inner-voices-superstitions-and-being-sure-but-wrong/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/27-tricks-the-mind-plays-inner-voices-superstitions-and-being-sure-but-wrong/)