--- title: A superstition is a rule with no reason behind it that people keep a… — Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions · tree and pragmatics description: A superstition is a rule with no reason behind it that people keep anyway: black cats, ladders, umbrellas indoors, broken mirrors, the number 13, touching wood. Who acts: superstition, people. 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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, people), 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:3 # text = A superstition is a rule with no reason behind it that people keep anyway: black cats, ladders, umbrellas indoors, broken mirrors, the number 13, touching wood. # 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, R8-pos-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 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 8 det _ _ 8 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 behind behind ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nmod _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 14 anyway anyway ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 appos _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 ladders ladder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 umbrellas umbrella NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 22 indoors indoors ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 25 mirrors mirror NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 13 13 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 flat _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 touching touch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 32 compound _ _ 32 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - 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 superstition | a rule | | | | with no reason behind reason | tree rules | | 2 | **keep** | present | people | no reason behind reason | | | | anyway *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | | 3 | **break** | participle | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **touch** | gerund | | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «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:world:161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions.lesson:3`. **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, R8-pos-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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