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title: Mind reading means being sure you know what others think without ask… — Olympiad: thinking traps and what helps first ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Mind reading means being sure you know what others think without asking them. Who acts: Mind reading, you, others. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: thinking traps and what helps first ★★★» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Olympiad: thinking traps and what helps first ★★★, sentence 8

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Mind reading means being sure you know what others think without asking them.

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**Who acts:** Mind reading, you, others · **What happens:** means, be, know, think, ask · **To what, where:** others · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Mind reading, you, others), 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:8
# text = Mind reading means being sure you know what others think without asking them.
# 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): no change
1	Mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	reading	read	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	means	means	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	_
5	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	obj	_	_
9	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
11	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	advcl	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **means** | present | Mind reading |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | gerund | Mind reading *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | present | others |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | you *not said here* |  | others *= other* |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |

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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.

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**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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