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title: Doubts like "did I lock the door?" feel very real at night; checking… — The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking… · tree and pragmatics
description: Doubts like "did I lock the door?" feel very real at night; checking once and saying out loud "I checked, it's locked" helps more than checking again and again. Who acts: I, Doubts. A sentence of the lesson «The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking and nightmares» of the reflection course of 
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# The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking and nightmares, sentence 11

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Doubts like "did I lock the door?" feel very real at night; checking once and saying out loud "I checked, it's locked" helps more than checking again and again.

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**Who acts:** I, Doubts · **What happens:** lock, feel, check, say out, help · **To what, where:** door · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, Doubts), 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:11
# text = Doubts like "did I lock the door?" feel very real at night; checking once and saying out loud "I checked, it's locked" helps more than checking again and again.
# 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Doubts	doubt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:case
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lock	lock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	nmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
11	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	checking	check	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	nsubj	_	_
18	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	17	advmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	checked	check	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	locked	lock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	parataxis	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct
31	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
32	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	31	advmod	_	_
33	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
34	checking	check	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	advcl	_	_
35	again	again	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	again	again	ADV	RB	_	35	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **lock** *in a quote* | past · do-support | I | the door |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 2 | **feel** | present | Doubts |  |  |  | night | real *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **check** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say out** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **check** *in a quote* | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **lock** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | door |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 7 | **help** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **check** | gerund |  |  |  |  | again |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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