--- title: The mind plays other tricks too: rare things on the news feel common… — Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitio… · tree and pragmatics description: The mind plays other tricks too: rare things on the news feel common, a lucky pencil seems to work because we remember only the hits, the crowd's laugh pulls ours out, and being sure can still be wrong, as when Grace nearly told everyone her friend stole, and it was a different girl in the same coat --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitions and being sure but wrong, sentence 4 The mind plays other tricks too: rare things on the news feel common, a lucky pencil seems to work because we remember only the hits, the crowd's laugh pulls ours out, and being sure can still be wrong, as when Grace nearly told everyone her friend stole, and it was a different girl in the same coat. **Who acts:** mind, rare things, lucky pencil, we, laugh, Grace · **What happens:** play, feel, seem, work, remember, pull out · **To what, where:** other tricks, hits, ours, everyone, different girl, same coat · **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 (mind, rare things, lucky pencil, we), 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:4 # text = The mind plays other tricks too: rare things on the news feel common, a lucky pencil seems to work because we remember only the hits, the crowd's laugh pulls ours out, and being sure can still be wrong, as when Grace nearly told everyone her friend stole, and it was a different girl in the same coat. # 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): R5-strong ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 plays play VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 too too ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 8 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl:relcl 14 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 lucky lucky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 pencil pencil NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 because because SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 remember remember VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 25 only only ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 hits hit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 crowd crowd NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 's 's PART POS _ 30 case _ _ 32 laugh laugh NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 34 ours our PRON PRP Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 out out ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 38 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 43 cop _ _ 39 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 40 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 41 still still ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 42 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 43 cop _ _ 43 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 44 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 45 as as SCONJ IN _ 49 mark _ _ 46 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 49 advmod _ _ 47 Grace Grace PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 nsubj _ _ 48 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 49 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 advcl _ _ 50 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 49 iobj _ _ 51 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 52 nmod:poss _ _ 52 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nsubj _ _ 53 stole stole VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 49 ccomp _ _ 54 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 55 and and CCONJ CC _ 60 cc _ _ 56 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 60 nsubj _ _ 57 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 60 cop _ _ 58 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 59 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 60 amod _ _ 60 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 conj _ _ 61 in in ADP IN _ 64 case _ _ 62 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 64 det _ _ 63 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 64 amod _ _ 64 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 nmod _ _ 65 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **play** | present | the mind | other tricks | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme | | 2 | **feel** | present | rare things on the news | | | | | common *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **seem** | present | a lucky pencil | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 4 | **work** | to-infinitive | a lucky pencil *not said here* | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **remember** | present | we | the hits | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent hit=Theme | | 6 | **pull out** | present | the crowd's laugh | ours | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **is** | can · gerund | rare things on the news *not said here* | | | | still | wrong *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Grace | | everyone | | | nearly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient clause=Topic | | 9 | **stole** | past | Grace's friend | | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **is a** | past | laugh | a different girl | | the same coat | | | tree rules | | 11 | **laugh** | | the crowd | | | | | | nom laugh «communication intransitive»: poss=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:4`. **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): R5-strong ×2. **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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