--- title: Catastrophising means jumping from a small thing to the worst possib… — The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking… · tree and pragmatics description: Catastrophising means jumping from a small thing to the worst possible ending; "spiralling" is when thoughts get worse and worse, and "making a mountain out of a molehill" means making a small problem huge. Who acts: Catastrophising, thoughts, making. 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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 (Catastrophising, thoughts, making), 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:9 # text = Catastrophising means jumping from a small thing to the worst possible ending; "spiralling" is when thoughts get worse and worse, and "making a mountain out of a molehill" means making a small problem huge. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Catastrophising catastrophising NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 jumping jump VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 xcomp _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 worst bad ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 12 amod _ _ 11 possible possible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 ending ending NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 15 spiralling spiralling NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 18 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 19 thoughts thought NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 21 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 xcomp _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 21 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 27 making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:nsubj 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 out out ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 molehill molehill NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct 35 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 36 making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 xcomp _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 problem problem NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 40 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 xcomp _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Catastrophising | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **jump** *not said to happen* | gerund | Catastrophising *not said here* | | | a small thing | | to the worst possible ending *result* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient from thing=Initial\_State to ending=Result | | 3 | **is** | present | thoughts | | | | | bad, get *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **make** *in a quote* | gerund | | a mountain | | a molehill | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mountain=Product | | 5 | **mean** | present | making | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **make** *not said to happen* | gerund | making *not said here* | a small problem | | | | huge *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset problem=Product | 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:9`. **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 ×2, 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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