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title: Leo checks the door five times. What would probably happen if he kep… — The mind at night: replays, worst-case… · tree and pragmatics
description: Leo checks the door five times. What would probably happen if he kept doing it every night? Test 3 · ★★ of lesson 26 «The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking and nightmares» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each
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# Test 3 · ★★ · The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking and nightm…

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Leo checks the door five times. What would probably happen if he kept doing it every night?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Leo · **What happens:** check, happen, keep, do · **To what, where:** door

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This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 26 «The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking and nightmares» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/reflection/26-the-mind-at-night-replays-worst-case-thinking-and-nightmares/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Leo checks the door five times.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:reflection:26-the-mind-at-night-replays-worst-case-thinking-and-nightmares:t3:1
# text = Leo checks the door five times.
1	Leo	Leo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	checks	check	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **check** | present | Leo | the door |  |  | time |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme |

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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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*Sentence 2:* What would probably happen if he kept doing it every night?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:reflection:26-the-mind-at-night-replays-worst-case-thinking-and-nightmares:t3:2
# text = What would probably happen if he kept doing it every night?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  | probably *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Leo |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | gerund | Leo *not said here* | door |  |  | night |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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He would sleep much better each time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:reflection:26-the-mind-at-night-replays-worst-case-thinking-and-nightmares:t3:o1:1
# text = He would sleep much better each time
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | would | He |  |  |  | time | good *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The house would become totally safe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:reflection:26-the-mind-at-night-replays-worst-case-thinking-and-nightmares:t3:o2:1
# text = The house would become totally safe
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | would | the house |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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It could become a habit that feeds the worry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:reflection:26-the-mind-at-night-replays-worst-case-thinking-and-nightmares:t3:o3:1
# text = It could become a habit that feeds the worry
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	feeds	feed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	worry	worry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | could | It | a habit |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **feed** | present | a habit | the worry |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worry=Recipient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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The doubt would disappear for good after enough checks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:reflection:26-the-mind-at-night-replays-worst-case-thinking-and-nightmares:t3:o4:1
# text = The doubt would disappear for good after enough checks
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	disappear	disappear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	checks	check	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disappear** | would | the doubt |  |  |  | after enough checks | for good | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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