The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking and nightmares, sentence 8

Trying hard not to think about something usually makes the thought come back more; noticing it and turning to something else works better.

Who acts: Trying, thought, noticing · What happens: try, not think, make, come back, notice, turn · To what, where: thought, 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 (Trying, thought, noticing), 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	VerbForm=Ger	9 makes	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 something	case
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 think	obl
8	usually	usually	ADV	_	9 makes	advmod
9	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 thought	det
11	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 makes	obj
12	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 makes	xcomp
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 come	advmod
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 come	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 makes	punct
16	noticing	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 works	csubj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 noticing	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 turning	cc
19	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 noticing	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 something	case
21	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 turning	obl
22	else	else	ADV	_	21 something	advmod
23	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 makes	parataxis
24	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 works	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 makes	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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 something	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about something=Topic
3	make	present	Trying	the thought		usually property	tree rules
4	come back	infinitive	the thought not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	notice	gerund		thought			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
6	turn	gerund			something		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to something=Trajectory
7	work	present	noticing			well property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: 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:8.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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