--- title: A superstition is a belief that an object, action or number brings g… — Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions · tree and pragmatics description: A superstition is a belief that an object, action or number brings good or bad luck, with nothing that really connects them. Who acts: superstition, object. 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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 (superstition, object), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions.lesson:10 # text = A superstition is a belief that an object, action or number brings good or bad luck, with nothing that really connects them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 superstition superstition NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 belief belief NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 7 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 object object NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 action action NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:appos 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 brings bring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl _ _ 14 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ _ 17 luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 13 obl _ _ 21 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 22 really really ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 connects connect VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **is a** | present | a superstition | a belief | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **bring** | present | a object and action or number | good luck | | | | with nothing | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent luck=Theme | | 3 | **connect** | present | | object | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | 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:world:161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions.lesson:10`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions/9/) - next →: [Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions/)