Olympiad: thinking traps and what helps first ★★★, sentence 7

Worst-case thinking, also called catastrophising, jumps from a small problem to the most terrible outcome; asking "what is most likely?" helps.

Who acts: case thinking, asking · What happens: call, jump, ask, be, help · To what, where: catastrophising, small problem · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: thinking traps and what helps first ★★★» 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 (case thinking, asking), 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	Worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 case	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Worst	punct
3	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thinking	compound
4	thinking	thinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 jumps	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 called	punct
6	also	also	ADV	_	7 called	advmod
7	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 thinking	acl
8	catastrophising	catastrophising	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 called	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thinking	punct
10	jumps	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	from	from	ADP	_	14 problem	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 problem	det
13	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 problem	amod
14	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 jumps	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	19 outcome	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 outcome	det
17	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	18 terrible	advmod
18	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 outcome	amod
19	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 jumps	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 asking	punct
21	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 helps	csubj
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 likely	punct
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 likely	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 likely	cop
25	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	26 likely	advmod
26	likely	likely	ADV	_	29 helps	advmod
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	26 likely	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 likely	punct
29	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 jumps	parataxis
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 jumps	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	call	participle	case thinking not said here	catastrophising			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	jump	present	case thinking		a small problem	to the terrible outcome result	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient from problem=Initial_State to outcome=Result
3	ask speech: ask	gerund					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present				likely property	tree rules
5	help	present	asking				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:032-olympiad-thinking-traps-and-what-helps-first.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): R5-strong ×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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