--- title: Knowing the tricks does not switch them off, but it lets you catch t… — Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitio… · tree and pragmatics description: Knowing the tricks does not switch them off, but it lets you catch them: "Is this a fact, or is it my brain doing that thing again?" Who acts: Knowing, pencil, you, this. 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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 (Knowing, pencil, you, this), 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:5 # text = Knowing the tricks does not switch them off, but it lets you catch them: "Is this a fact, or is it my brain doing that thing again?" # 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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Knowing know VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 csubj _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 switch switch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 off off ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 18 Is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 19 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 21 nsubj _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 fact fact NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 28 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 acl _ _ 29 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 det _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:det|HaikuPos=DET:IN:Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 again again ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 32 ? ? PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ _ 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | gerund | | the tricks | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer trick=Stimulus | | 2 | **not** **switch off** | present · do-support | Knowing | tricks *= trick* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **let** | present | pencil | you | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **catch** | infinitive | you *not said here* | tricks *= trick* | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | this | a fact or my brain | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | pencil | my brain | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **do** *in a quote* | gerund | my brain *not said here* | that thing | | | again | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | 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:5`. **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): R8-pos-agree ×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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