The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking and nightmares, sentence 16
Big world worries like climate change can feel huge at night; doing small useful things, like an eco club, eases the helpless feeling.
Who acts: Big world worries, doing · What happens: feel, do, ease · To what, where: small useful things, helpless feeling
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 (Big world worries, doing), 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 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 worries | amod |
| 2 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 worries | compound |
| 3 | worries | worry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 feel | nsubj |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 change | case |
| 5 | climate | climate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 change | compound |
| 6 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 worries | nmod |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 feel | aux |
| 8 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 feel | xcomp |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 night | case |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 feel | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 doing | punct |
| 13 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 eases | csubj |
| 14 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 things | amod |
| 15 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 things | amod |
| 16 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 doing | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 eases | punct |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 club | case |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 club | det |
| 20 | eco | eco | X | _ | 21 club | compound |
| 21 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 things | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 club | punct |
| 23 | eases | ease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 feel | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 feeling | det |
| 25 | helpless | helpless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 feeling | amod |
| 26 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 eases | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | can | Big world worries like climate change | night | huge property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | do | gerund | small useful things | like a eco club | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | ease | present | doing | the helpless feeling | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent feeling=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:16.
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 ×2. 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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