The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking and nightmares, sentence 10

Writing a worry down at night and checking in the morning what really happened shows how often night worries were too big.

Who acts: Writing, night worries · What happens: write down, check, happen, show, be · To what, where: worry · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Writing, night worries), 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	Writing	write	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 shows	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 worry	det
3	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Writing	obj
4	down	down	ADP	_	1 Writing	compound:prt
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Writing	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 checking	cc
8	checking	check	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Writing	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 morning	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 morning	det
11	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 checking	obl
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 happened	nsubj
13	really	really	ADV	_	14 happened	advmod
14	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 checking	ccomp
15	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 often	advmod
17	often	often	ADV	_	22 big	advmod
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 worries	compound
19	worries	worry	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 big	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 big	cop
21	too	too	ADV	_	22 big	advmod
22	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 shows	ccomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 shows	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	write down	gerund		a worry	night		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worry=Theme
2	check	gerund			morning		tree rules
3	happen	past					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	show	present	Writing				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	night worries			big, often property	tree rules

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: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): 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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