The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking and nightmares, sentence 9
Catastrophising means jumping from a small thing to the worst possible ending; "spiralling" is when thoughts get worse and worse, and "making a mountain out of a molehill" means making a small problem huge.
Who acts: Catastrophising, thoughts, making · What happens: mean, jump, be, make · To what, where: small thing, mountain, molehill, small problem · 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 (Catastrophising, thoughts, making), 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 | Catastrophising | catastrophising | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | jumping | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 means | xcomp |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 thing | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 thing | det |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thing | amod |
| 7 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jumping | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 ending | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ending | det |
| 10 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 ending | amod |
| 11 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ending | amod |
| 12 | ending | ending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jumping | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 spiralling | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 spiralling | punct |
| 15 | spiralling | spiralling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thing | appos |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 spiralling | punct |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 get | cop |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 get | advmod |
| 19 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 get | nsubj |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 means | ccomp |
| 21 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 get | xcomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 worse | cc |
| 23 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 worse | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 means | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 means | cc |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 making | punct |
| 27 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 means | csubj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 mountain | det |
| 29 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 making | obj |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 33 molehill | case |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 molehill | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 molehill | det |
| 33 | molehill | molehill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 mountain | nmod |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 making | punct |
| 35 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 means | conj |
| 36 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 means | xcomp |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 problem | det |
| 38 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 problem | amod |
| 39 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 making | obj |
| 40 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 making | xcomp |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Catastrophising | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | jump not said to happen | gerund | Catastrophising not said here | a small thing | to the worst possible ending result | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient from thing=Initial_State to ending=Result | |||
| 3 | is | present | thoughts | bad, get property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make in a quote | gerund | a mountain | a molehill | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mountain=Product | ||||
| 5 | mean | present | making | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | make not said to happen | gerund | making not said here | a small problem | huge property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset problem=Product |
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:9.
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 ×2, 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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