The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking and nightmares, sentence 1
It's like a rubbish TV channel I can't switch off."
Who acts: It, I · What happens: be, not switch off · To what, where: TV channel
This is a sentence of the lesson «The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking and nightmares» 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 (It, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 channel | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 channel | cop |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 channel | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 channel | det |
| 5 | rubbish | rubbish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 TV | compound |
| 6 | TV | TV | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 channel | compound |
| 7 | channel | channel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 switch | nsubj |
| 9 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 switch | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 switch | advmod |
| 11 | switch | switch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 channel | acl:relcl |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 switch | compound:prt |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 channel | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 channel | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | like a TV channel | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not switch off | can | I | a TV channel not said here | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent channel=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, 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:026-the-mind-at-night-replays-worst-case-thinking-and-nightmares.lesson:1.
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.
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