--- title: When we are worried, the brain fills gaps with the worst story; "par… — When nobody sits with you: making friends again · tree and pragmatics description: When we are worried, the brain fills gaps with the worst story; "paranoid" means wrongly sure people are against you. Who acts: we, brain, paranoid. A sentence of the lesson «When nobody sits with you: making friends again» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/23-when-nobody-sits-with-you-making-friends-again/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Reflection](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/) / [When nobody sits with you: making frie…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/23-when-nobody-sits-with-you-making-friends-again/) / 14 # When nobody sits with you: making friends again, sentence 14 When we are worried, the brain fills gaps with the worst story; "paranoid" means wrongly sure people are against you. **Who acts:** we, brain, paranoid · **What happens:** be, fill, mean · **To what, where:** gaps, sure people This is a sentence of the lesson «When nobody sits with you: making friends again» 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 (we, brain, paranoid), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:023-when-nobody-sits-with-you-making-friends-again.lesson:14 # text = When we are worried, the brain fills gaps with the worst story; "paranoid" means wrongly sure people are against you. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 023-when-nobody-sits-with-you-making-friends-again.lesson # annotation = 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 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 worried worried ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 advcl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 fills fill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 gaps gap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 worst bad ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 13 amod _ _ 13 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 16 paranoid paranoid NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 18 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 19 wrongly wrongly ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 against against ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | we | | | | | worried *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **fill** | present | the brain | gaps | | | | with the worst story | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent gap=Patient with story=Instrument | | 3 | **mean** | present | paranoid | sure people | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | | against you | tree rules | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:023-when-nobody-sits-with-you-making-friends-again.lesson:14`. **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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