--- title: Trying hard not to think about something usually makes the thought c… — The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking… · tree and pragmatics description: Trying hard not to think about something usually makes the thought come back more; noticing it and turning to something else works better. Who acts: Trying, thought, noticing. 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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, thought, noticing), 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:8 # text = Trying hard not to think about something usually makes the thought come back more; noticing it and turning to something else works better. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Trying try VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 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 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl 8 usually usually ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 thought thought NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 13 back back ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 12 advmod _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 16 noticing notice VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 csubj _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 turning turn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 conj _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 19 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obj 22 else else ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 24 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 23 advmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | 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 something | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about something=Topic | | 3 | **make** | present | Trying | the thought | | | | usually *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **come back** | infinitive | the thought *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **notice** | gerund | | thought | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 6 | **turn** | gerund | | | | something | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to something=Trajectory | | 7 | **work** | present | noticing | | | | | well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: 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:8`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×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. 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