--- title: Daydreaming is normal and good for imagination, but it can make you… — Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitio… · tree and pragmatics description: Daydreaming is normal and good for imagination, but it can make you miss instructions; writing them down or sitting nearer the front helps. Who acts: Daydreaming, you, writing. A sentence of the lesson «Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitions and being sure but wrong» of the reflection co --- [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/14/) [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/) / 14 # Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitions and being sure but wrong, sentence 14 Daydreaming is normal and good for imagination, but it can make you miss instructions; writing them down or sitting nearer the front helps. **Who acts:** Daydreaming, you, writing · **What happens:** be, make, miss, write down, sit, help · **To what, where:** you, instructions 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 (Daydreaming, you, writing), 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:14 # text = Daydreaming is normal and good for imagination, but it can make you miss instructions; writing them down or sitting nearer the front helps. # 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): R1-cc-next ×3 1 Daydreaming daydreaming NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 5 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 imagination imagination NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 miss miss VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 instructions instruction NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 writing write VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 csubj _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 down down ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=17:cc 21 sitting sit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 conj _ _ 22 nearer near ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 21 xcomp _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 25 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Daydreaming | | | | | for imagination; normal *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | Daydreaming *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | can | Daydreaming | you | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **miss** | infinitive | you *not said here* | instructions | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer instruction=Stimulus | | 5 | **write down** | gerund | | instructions *= instruction* | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 6 | **sit** | gerund | | | | | | near *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **help** | present | writing | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:14`. **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): R1-cc-next ×3. **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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