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title: Dreams can be strange and mixed up; dreaming about doing something b… — Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitio… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dreams can be strange and mixed up; dreaming about doing something bad does not make you a bad person. Who acts: Dreams, dreaming. 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 depende
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# Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitions and being sure but wrong, sentence 16

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Dreams can be strange and mixed up; dreaming about doing something bad does not make you a bad person.

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**Who acts:** Dreams, dreaming · **What happens:** be, mix up, dream, do, not make · **To what, where:** something, you

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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 (Dreams, dreaming), 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:16
# text = Dreams can be strange and mixed up; dreaming about doing something bad does not make you a bad person.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	mixed	mix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct
9	dreaming	dream	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	csubj	_	_
10	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
11	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obl
12	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	11	obj	_	_
13	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
14	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | can | Dreams |  |  |  |  | strange *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mix up** | participle | Dreams *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **dream** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **do** | gerund |  | something |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality |
| 5 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | dreaming | you |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |

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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.

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**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:16`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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