--- title: In the dark the brain fills unclear shapes with familiar or scary th… — The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking… · tree and pragmatics description: In the dark the brain fills unclear shapes with familiar or scary things, like faces; seeing faces in objects is called pareidolia, and a night light helps. Who acts: brain, seeing, night light. A sentence of the lesson «The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking and nightmares» of the reflecti --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/26-the-mind-at-night-replays-worst-case-thinking-and-nightmares/18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Reflection](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/) / [The mind at night: replays, worst-case…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/26-the-mind-at-night-replays-worst-case-thinking-and-nightmares/) / 18 # The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking and nightmares, sentence 18 In the dark the brain fills unclear shapes with familiar or scary things, like faces; seeing faces in objects is called pareidolia, and a night light helps. **Who acts:** brain, seeing, night light · **What happens:** fill, see, call, help · **To what, where:** unclear shapes, dark, faces, objects, pareidolia · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (brain, seeing, night light), 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:18 # text = In the dark the brain fills unclear shapes with familiar or scary things, like faces; seeing faces in objects is called pareidolia, and a night light helps. # 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 ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 dark dark NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 fills fill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 unclear unclear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 shapes shape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 familiar familiar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 13 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 like like ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 18 seeing see VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 csubj:pass _ _ 19 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 objects object NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 24 pareidolia pareidolia NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 xcomp _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fill** | present | the brain | unclear shapes | | the dark | | with familiar things like faces | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent shape=Patient with thing=Instrument | | 2 | **see** | gerund | | faces | | objects | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus | | 3 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive | seeing | pareidolia | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» | | 4 | **help** | present | a night light | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | 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:18`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [The mind at night: replays, worst-case…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/26-the-mind-at-night-replays-worst-case-thinking-and-nightmares/16/) - next →: [Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, s…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/27-tricks-the-mind-plays-inner-voices-superstitions-and-being-sure-but-wrong/0/) - ↑ 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/)