The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking and nightmares, sentence 7
Replays usually get less sharp over days and weeks, especially if you let them pass instead of fighting them.
Who acts: Replays, you, tricks · What happens: get, let, pass, fight · To what, where: tricks
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 (Replays, you, tricks), 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 | Replays | replay | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 get | nsubj |
| 2 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 3 get | advmod |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 sharp | advmod |
| 5 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 get | xcomp |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 days | case |
| 7 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 get | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 weeks | cc |
| 9 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 days | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 let | punct |
| 11 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 14 let | advmod |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 let | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 let | nsubj |
| 14 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | advcl |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 let | obj |
| 16 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 let | xcomp |
| 17 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 16 pass | advmod |
| 18 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 19 fighting | mark |
| 19 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 pass | advcl |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 fighting | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Replays | day | sharp, usually property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | let a condition, not said to happen | present | you | tricks = trick | especially property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | pass | infinitive | tricks = trick not said here | instead property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fight | gerund | tricks = trick not said here | tricks = trick | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-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:7.
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): no change. 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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