The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking and nightmares, sentence 12

Nightmares are the brain sorting through big feelings, often after something sad or scary; they are not warnings and they do not predict the future.

Who acts: Nightmares, brain · What happens: be, sort, not be, not predict · To what, where: brain, big feelings, warnings, future

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 (Nightmares, brain), 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	Nightmares	nightmare	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 brain	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 brain	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brain	det
4	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	sorting	sort	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 brain	acl
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 feelings	case
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 feelings	amod
8	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sorting	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 often	punct
10	often	often	ADV	_	5 sorting	advmod
11	after	after	ADP	_	12 something	case
12	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 sorting	obl
13	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 something	amod
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 scary	cc
15	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sad	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 warnings	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 warnings	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 warnings	cop
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 warnings	advmod
20	warnings	warning	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 brain	parataxis
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 predict	cc
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 predict	nsubj
23	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 predict	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 predict	advmod
25	predict	predict	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 warnings	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 future	det
27	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 predict	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 brain	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Nightmares	the brain				tree rules
2	sort	gerund	the brain not said here		big feelings	after something	often property	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	not is a	present	nightmares = nightmare	warnings				tree rules
4	not predict	present · do-support	nightmares = nightmare	the future				vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot future=Topic

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:12.

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): R5-strong ×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.

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