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title: Writing a worry down at night and checking in the morning what reall… — The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking… · tree and pragmatics
description: Writing a worry down at night and checking in the morning what really happened shows how often night worries were too big. Who acts: Writing, night worries. A sentence of the lesson «The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking and nightmares» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school wit
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# The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking and nightmares, sentence 10

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Writing a worry down at night and checking in the morning what really happened shows how often night worries were too big.

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**Who acts:** Writing, night worries · **What happens:** write down, check, happen, show, be · **To what, where:** worry · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Writing, night worries), 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:10
# text = Writing a worry down at night and checking in the morning what really happened shows how often night worries were too big.
# 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	Writing	write	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	worry	worry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	checking	check	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	nsubj	_	_
13	really	really	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
15	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
17	often	often	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
18	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	worries	worry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	too	too	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	ccomp	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | **write down** | gerund |  | a worry |  |  | night |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worry=Theme |
| 2 | **check** | gerund |  |  |  |  | morning |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **happen** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **show** | present | Writing |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past | night worries |  |  |  |  | big, often *property* | tree rules |

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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:10`.

**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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