--- title: A thinking trap is a habit of thought that bends the truth, making t… — Olympiad: thinking traps and what helps first ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: A thinking trap is a habit of thought that bends the truth, making things seem worse, bigger or more certain than they are. Who acts: thinking trap, habit, things, traps. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: thinking traps and what helps first ★★★» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/32-olympiad-thinking-traps-and-what-helps-first/5/) [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/) / [Olympiad: thinking traps and what help…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/32-olympiad-thinking-traps-and-what-helps-first/) / 5 # Olympiad: thinking traps and what helps first ★★★, sentence 5 A thinking trap is a habit of thought that bends the truth, making things seem worse, bigger or more certain than they are. **Who acts:** thinking trap, habit, things, traps · **What happens:** be, bend, make, seem · **To what, where:** habit, truth This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: thinking traps and what helps first ★★★» 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 (thinking trap, habit, things, traps), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:032-olympiad-thinking-traps-and-what-helps-first.lesson:5 # text = A thinking trap is a habit of thought that bends the truth, making things seem worse, bigger or more certain than they are. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 032-olympiad-thinking-traps-and-what-helps-first.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 thinking thinking NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 trap trap NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 habit habit NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 thought thought NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 bends bend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 15 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 seem seem VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 17 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 xcomp _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:xcomp 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 22 advmod _ _ 22 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ _ 23 than than SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a thinking trap | a habit | | | | of thought | tree rules | | 2 | **bend** | present | a habit | the truth | | | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent truth=Material | | 3 | **make** | gerund | a habit *not said here* | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 4 | **seem** | present | things | | | | | bad *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **does** | present | traps *= trap* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «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:032-olympiad-thinking-traps-and-what-helps-first.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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