The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking and nightmares, sentence 3

Trying hard NOT to think about it made it louder; what helped was Dad saying he once called his teacher "Mum" at secondary school, and saying to himself, "Oh, that clip again," then thinking about his favourite football match instead.

Who acts: Trying, he · What happens: try, not think, make, help, be, say · To what, where: replay, Dad, teacher · 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 (Trying, he), 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	Trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 made	csubj
2	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Trying	advmod
3	NOT	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 think	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 think	mark
5	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Trying	xcomp
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 think	obl
8	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 made	obj
10	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 made	xcomp
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 helped	punct
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 helped	nsubj
13	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 made	parataxis
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 Dad	cop
15	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 helped	obj
16	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 helped	advcl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 called	nsubj
18	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	19 called	advmod
19	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 saying	ccomp
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 teacher	nmod:poss
21	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 called	obj
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 Mum	punct
23	Mum	Mum	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 called	xcomp
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 Mum	punct
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 school	case
26	secondary	secondary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 school	amod
27	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 teacher	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 saying	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 saying	cc
30	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 saying	advcl
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 himself	case
32	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 saying	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 clip	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 clip	punct
35	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	38 clip	discourse
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Oh	punct
37	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 clip	det
38	clip	clip	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 saying	ccomp
39	again	again	ADV	_	38 clip	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 again	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 clip	punct
42	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 thinking	advmod
43	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 helped	advcl
44	about	about	ADP	_	48 match	case
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 match	nmod:poss
46	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 match	amod
47	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 match	compound
48	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 thinking	obl
49	instead	instead	ADV	_	43 thinking	advmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 made	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	try	gerund					hard property	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	not think speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive					about replay	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
3	make	past	Trying	replay			loud property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
4	help	past						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past		Dad				tree rules
6	say speech: assert	gerund						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	call	past	he	his teacher			at secondary school; once property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent teacher=Theme at school=Stimulus
8	say speech: assert	gerund			teacher			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
9	think speech: other	gerund				then	about teacher's favourite football match; instead property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about match=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:3.

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, R8-pos-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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