--- title: Worst-case thinking, also called catastrophising, jumps from a small… — Olympiad: thinking traps and what helps first ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Worst-case thinking, also called catastrophising, jumps from a small problem to the most terrible outcome; asking "what is most likely?" helps. Who acts: case thinking, asking. 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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 (case thinking, asking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:032-olympiad-thinking-traps-and-what-helps-first.lesson:7 # text = Worst-case thinking, also called catastrophising, jumps from a small problem to the most terrible outcome; asking "what is most likely?" helps. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 032-olympiad-thinking-traps-and-what-helps-first.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Worst bad ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:amod 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 3 case case NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 thinking thinking NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 also also ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 8 catastrophising catastrophising NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 xcomp _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 10 jumps jump VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 problem problem NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 17 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 18 advmod _ _ 18 terrible terrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 outcome outcome NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 csubj _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 23 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 26 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 26 advmod _ _ 26 likely likely ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 27 ? ? PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 29 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 30 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | participle | case thinking *not said here* | catastrophising | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **jump** | present | case thinking | | | a small problem | | to the terrible outcome *result* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient from problem=Initial\_State to outcome=Result | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | likely *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **help** | present | asking | | | | | | 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:032-olympiad-thinking-traps-and-what-helps-first.lesson:7`. **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, 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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