--- title: Nightmares are the brain sorting through big feelings, often after s… — The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking… · tree and pragmatics description: Nightmares are the brain sorting through big feelings, often after something sad or scary; they are not warnings and they do not predict the future. Who acts: Nightmares, brain. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nightmares, brain), 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:12 # text = Nightmares are the brain sorting through big feelings, often after something sad or scary; they are not warnings and they do not predict the future. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 Nightmares nightmare NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 sorting sort VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 acl _ _ 6 through through ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 feelings feeling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 often often ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 11 after after ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl 13 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 warnings warning NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 parataxis _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 predict predict VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 future future NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 a** | present | Nightmares | the brain | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **sort** | gerund | the brain *not said here* | | | big feelings | after something | often *property* | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **is a** | present | nightmares *= nightmare* | warnings | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **predict** | present · do-support | nightmares *= nightmare* | the future | | | | | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot future=Topic | 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:026-the-mind-at-night-replays-worst-case-thinking-and-nightmares.lesson:12`. **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. **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/). - ← previous: [The mind at night: replays, worst-case…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/26-the-mind-at-night-replays-worst-case-thinking-and-nightmares/11/) - next →: [The mind at night: replays, worst-case…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/26-the-mind-at-night-replays-worst-case-thinking-and-nightmares/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/26-the-mind-at-night-replays-worst-case-thinking-and-nightmares/)