The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking and nightmares, sentence 6
The mind often replays embarrassing moments at night because it is quiet and there is little else to think about; a "cringe attack" is slang for suddenly remembering something embarrassing.
Who acts: mind, little, cringe attack · What happens: replay, be, think about, remember · To what, where: slang, something
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 (mind, little, cringe attack), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mind | det |
| 2 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 replays | nsubj |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 replays | advmod |
| 4 | replays | replay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | embarrassing | embarrassing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 moments | amod |
| 6 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 replays | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 night | case |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 replays | obl |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 quiet | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 quiet | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 quiet | cop |
| 12 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 replays | advcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 is | cc |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 is | expl |
| 15 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 quiet | conj |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 is | nsubj |
| 17 | else | else | ADV | _ | 16 little | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 think | mark |
| 19 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 little | acl |
| 20 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 think | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 slang | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 attack | det |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 attack | punct |
| 24 | cringe | cringe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 attack | compound |
| 25 | attack | attack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 slang | nsubj |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 attack | punct |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 slang | cop |
| 28 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 replays | parataxis |
| 29 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 31 remembering | mark |
| 30 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 31 remembering | advmod |
| 31 | remembering | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 slang | advcl |
| 32 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 31 remembering | obj |
| 33 | embarrassing | embarrassing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 something | amod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 replays | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | replay | present | the mind | moment; night | often property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is | present | mind | quiet property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | present | little | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | think about speech: other | to-infinitive | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is a | present | a cringe attack | slang | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | remember | gerund | a cringe attack not said here | something | suddenly property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent something=Theme |
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:6.
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): R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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