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title: It's like a rubbish TV channel I can't switch off." — The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking… · tree and pragmatics
description: It's like a rubbish TV channel I can't switch off." Who acts: It, I. A sentence of the lesson «The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking and nightmares» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking and nightmares, sentence 1

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It's like a rubbish TV channel I can't switch off."

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**Who acts:** It, I · **What happens:** be, not switch off · **To what, where:** TV channel

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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 (It, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:026-the-mind-at-night-replays-worst-case-thinking-and-nightmares.lesson:1
# text = It's like a rubbish TV channel I can't switch off."
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 026-the-mind-at-night-replays-worst-case-thinking-and-nightmares.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	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	TV	TV	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	channel	channel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	switch	switch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	off	off	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | like a TV channel | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **switch off** | can | I | a TV channel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent channel=Patient |

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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.

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**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:026-the-mind-at-night-replays-worst-case-thinking-and-nightmares.lesson:1`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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