--- title: Eyes and memory can trick us; being sure doesn't always mean being r… — Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitio… · tree and pragmatics description: Eyes and memory can trick us; being sure doesn't always mean being right, so it is wise to check before telling others. Who acts: Eyes. 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 with its de --- [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/13/) [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/) / 13 # Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitions and being sure but wrong, sentence 13 Eyes and memory can trick us; being sure doesn't always mean being right, so it is wise to check before telling others. **Who acts:** Eyes · **What happens:** trick, be, not mean, check, tell · **To what, where:** us, others · **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 (Eyes), 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:13 # text = Eyes and memory can trick us; being sure doesn't always mean being right, so it is wise to check before telling others. # 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): no change 1 Eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 memory memory NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 trick trick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 8 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 cop _ _ 9 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 csubj _ _ 10 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 11 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 12 always always ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 14 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 cop _ _ 15 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 expl _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 csubj _ _ 23 before before SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 24 telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 advcl _ _ 25 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **trick** | can | Eyes and memory | us | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient | | 2 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | | | | | | always *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** *not said to happen* | gerund | | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | | | | | | wise *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **check** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | others | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent other=Recipient | 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:13`. **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): no change. **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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