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title: Replays usually get less sharp over days and weeks, especially if yo… — The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking… · tree and pragmatics
description: Replays usually get less sharp over days and weeks, especially if you let them pass instead of fighting them. Who acts: Replays, you, tricks. A sentence of the lesson «The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking and nightmares» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc
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# The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking and nightmares, sentence 7

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Replays usually get less sharp over days and weeks, especially if you let them pass instead of fighting them.

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**Who acts:** Replays, you, tricks · **What happens:** get, let, pass, fight · **To what, where:** tricks

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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 (Replays, you, tricks), 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:7
# text = Replays usually get less sharp over days and weeks, especially if you let them pass instead of fighting them.
# 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): no change
1	Replays	replay	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	let	let	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | Replays |  |  |  | day | sharp, usually *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **let** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | tricks *= trick* |  |  |  | especially *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **pass** | infinitive | tricks *= trick* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fight** | gerund | tricks *= trick* *not said here* | tricks *= trick* |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent |

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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): no change. **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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