The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking and nightmares, sentence 18

In the dark the brain fills unclear shapes with familiar or scary things, like faces; seeing faces in objects is called pareidolia, and a night light helps.

Who acts: brain, seeing, night light · What happens: fill, see, call, help · To what, where: unclear shapes, dark, faces, objects, pareidolia · 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 (brain, seeing, night light), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 dark	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dark	det
3	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fills	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 brain	det
5	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fills	nsubj
6	fills	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	unclear	unclear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 shapes	amod
8	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fills	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	13 things	case
10	familiar	familiar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 things	amod
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 scary	cc
12	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 familiar	conj
13	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 shapes	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 faces	punct
15	like	like	ADP	_	16 faces	case
16	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 things	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 seeing	punct
18	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 called	csubj:pass
19	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 seeing	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 objects	case
21	objects	object	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 seeing	obl
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 called	aux:pass
23	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 fills	parataxis
24	pareidolia	pareidolia	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 called	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 helps	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 helps	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 light	det
28	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 light	compound
29	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 helps	nsubj
30	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 called	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fills	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fill	present	the brain	unclear shapes	the dark	with familiar things like faces	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent shape=Patient with thing=Instrument
2	see	gerund		faces	objects		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus
3	call speech: assert	present · passive	seeing	pareidolia			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»
4	help	present	a night light				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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:18.

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 ×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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