--- title: Trying hard NOT to think about it made it louder; what helped was Da… — The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking… · tree and pragmatics description: Trying hard NOT to think about it made it louder; what helped was Dad saying he once called his teacher "Mum" at secondary school, and saying to himself, "Oh, that clip again," then thinking about his favourite football match instead. Who acts: Trying, he. 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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 (Trying, he), 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:3 # text = Trying hard NOT to think about it made it louder; what helped was Dad saying he once called his teacher "Mum" at secondary school, and saying to himself, "Oh, that clip again," then thinking about his favourite football match instead. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Trying try VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 csubj _ _ 2 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 1 advmod _ _ 3 NOT not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 6 about about ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ _ 8 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 louder loud ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 xcomp _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 13 nsubj _ _ 13 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 Dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 19 advmod _ _ 19 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 23 Mum Mum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 25 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 secondary secondary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 30 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 " " PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=38:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 35 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 38 discourse _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 37 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 38 det _ _ 38 clip clip NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 ccomp _ _ 39 again again ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ 42 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 43 advmod _ _ 43 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 44 about about ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 45 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 46 favourite favourite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 47 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 compound _ _ 48 match match NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 49 instead instead ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod 50 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | gerund | | | | | | hard *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **not** **think** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | about replay | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | | 3 | **make** | past | Trying | replay | | | | loud *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | | 4 | **help** | past | | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | past | | Dad | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **call** | past | he | his teacher | | | | at secondary school; once *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent teacher=Theme at school=Stimulus | | 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | teacher | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | | 9 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | | | | | then | about teacher's favourite football match; instead *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about match=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:3`. **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, R8-pos-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. 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