The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking and nightmares, sentence 15

When we feel bad, the mind notices bad things more; listing three good things each evening trains it to notice good things too.

Who acts: we, mind, listing, thing · What happens: feel, notice, list, train · To what, where: bad things, three good things, thing, good things

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 (we, mind, listing, thing), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 feel	mark
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 feel	nsubj
3	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 notices	advcl
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 feel	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 feel	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mind	det
7	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 notices	nsubj
8	notices	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 things	amod
10	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 notices	obj
11	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 notices	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 trains	punct
13	listing	list	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 trains	csubj
14	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 things	nummod
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 things	amod
16	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 listing	obj
17	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	18 evening	det
18	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 trains	obl:unmarked
19	trains	train	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 notices	parataxis
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 trains	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 notice	mark
22	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 trains	xcomp
23	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 things	amod
24	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 notice	obj
25	too	too	ADV	_	22 notice	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 notices	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	we			bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	notice	present	the mind	bad things			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
3	list	gerund		three good things			tree rules
4	train	present	listing	thing	evening		vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme clause=Attribute
5	notice	to-infinitive	thing not said here	good things			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus

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:15.

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, R7-rel-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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