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title: When we feel bad, the mind notices bad things more; listing three go… — The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking… · tree and pragmatics
description: When we feel bad, the mind notices bad things more; listing three good things each evening trains it to notice good things too. Who acts: we, mind, listing, thing. A sentence of the lesson «The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking and nightmares» of the reflection course of Mova's primary sch
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# The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking and nightmares, sentence 15

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When we feel bad, the mind notices bad things more; listing three good things each evening trains it to notice good things too.

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**Who acts:** we, mind, listing, thing · **What happens:** feel, notice, list, train · **To what, where:** bad things, three good things, thing, good things

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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 (we, mind, listing, thing), 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:15
# text = When we feel bad, the mind notices bad things more; listing three good things each evening trains it to notice good things too.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	notices	notice	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	listing	list	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	csubj	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	trains	train	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
23	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	too	too	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | present | we |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **notice** | present | the mind | bad things |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
| 3 | **list** | gerund |  | three good things |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **train** | present | listing | thing |  |  | evening |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 5 | **notice** | to-infinitive | thing *not said here* | good things |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |

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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:15`.

**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, 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.

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

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