--- title: The news shows rare, scary events, which makes them feel common; fly… — Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitio… · tree and pragmatics description: The news shows rare, scary events, which makes them feel common; flying is one of the safest ways to travel, and thousands of planes land safely every day. Who acts: news, rare scary events, events, thousands. 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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 (news, rare scary events, events, thousands), 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:8 # text = The news shows rare, scary events, which makes them feel common; flying is one of the safest ways to travel, and thousands of planes land safely every day. # 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): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 events event NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 flying fly VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 parataxis _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 safest safe ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 21 amod _ _ 21 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 travel travel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 acl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 planes plane NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 29 land land VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 30 safely safely ADV RB Degree=Pos 29 advmod _ _ 31 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 32 det _ _ 32 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl:unmarked _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present | the news | rare scary events | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent event=Recipient | | 2 | **make** | present | rare scary events | events *= event* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **feel** | infinitive | events *= event* *not said here* | | | | | common *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **fly** | gerund | | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | | one | | | | of the safest ways | tree rules | | 6 | **travel** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **land** | present | thousands of planes | | | | day | safely *property* | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=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:8`. **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): no change. **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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