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title: Big world worries like climate change can feel huge at night; doing… — The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking… · tree and pragmatics
description: Big world worries like climate change can feel huge at night; doing small useful things, like an eco club, eases the helpless feeling. Who acts: Big world worries, doing. A sentence of the lesson «The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking and nightmares» of the reflection course of Mova's prim
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# The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking and nightmares, sentence 16

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Big world worries like climate change can feel huge at night; doing small useful things, like an eco club, eases the helpless feeling.

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**Who acts:** Big world worries, doing · **What happens:** feel, do, ease · **To what, where:** small useful things, helpless feeling

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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 (Big world worries, doing), 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:16
# text = Big world worries like climate change can feel huge at night; doing small useful things, like an eco club, eases the helpless feeling.
# 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 ×2
1	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	worries	worry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	climate	climate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	csubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj
14	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	eco	eco	X	AFX	_	21	compound	_	_
21	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	eases	ease	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	helpless	helpless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | can | Big world worries like climate change |  |  |  | night | huge *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **do** | gerund |  | small useful things |  |  |  | like a eco club | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 3 | **ease** | present | doing | the helpless feeling |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent feeling=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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**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 ×2. **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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