--- title: When she told her friend, the friend said, "I didn't mean it, I was… — Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitio… · tree and pragmatics description: When she told her friend, the friend said, "I didn't mean it, I was grumpy"; Ava started answering the voice, "That's not true," and over the next weeks it got quieter; going silent had only fed it. Who acts: Ava, friend, voice, That. 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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 (Ava, friend, voice, That), 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:3 # text = When she told her friend, the friend said, "I didn't mean it, I was grumpy"; Ava started answering the voice, "That's not true," and over the next weeks it got quieter; going silent had only fed it. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 iobj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:":_ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:parataxis 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 grumpy grumpy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 ccomp _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 23 Ava Ava PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 25 answering answer VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 xcomp _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 30 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 nsubj _ _ 31 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 parataxis _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 35 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 37 over over ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obl _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 43 quieter quiet ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 42 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=42:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 44 ; ; PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 45 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 49 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=49:nsubj 46 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 xcomp _ _ 47 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 49 aux _ _ 48 only only ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 49 fed feed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 parataxis _ _ 50 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 obj _ _ 51 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Ava | | Ava's friend | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the friend | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **mean** *in a quote* | past · do-support | the friend *= friend* | recording | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the friend *= friend* | | | | | grumpy *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **start** | past | Ava | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **answer** *speech: assert* | gerund | the voice | | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | That | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **get** | past | voice | | | | week | quiet *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 9 | **go** | gerund | | | | | | silent *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 10 | **feed** | past · perfect | going | voice | | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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:3`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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