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title: Remembering the times that fit your idea and forgetting the times th… — Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions · tree and pragmatics
description: Remembering the times that fit your idea and forgetting the times that don't is called confirmation bias. Who acts: times, Remembering. A sentence of the lesson «Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions, sentence 13

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Remembering the times that fit your idea and forgetting the times that don't is called confirmation bias.

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**Who acts:** times, Remembering · **What happens:** remember, fit, forget, not do, call · **To what, where:** idea, confirmation bias · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions» of the world 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 (times, Remembering), 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:13
# text = Remembering the times that fit your idea and forgetting the times that don't is called confirmation bias.
# 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): no change
1	Remembering	remember	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	csubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	fit	fit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	forgetting	forget	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	confirmation	confirmation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	bias	bias	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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 | **remember** | gerund |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fit** | present | the times | your idea |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient |
| 3 | **forget** | gerund |  |  |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **do** | present | the times |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive | Remembering | confirmation bias |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |

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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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**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:13`.

**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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