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Test 3 · ★★ · The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking and nightm…

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

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

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.

The question

Sentence 1: Leo checks the door five times.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 checks	nsubj
2	checks	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 door	det
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 checks	obj
5	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 times	nummod
6	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 checks	obl:unmarked
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 checks	punct

#	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

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.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	aux
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	4 happen	advmod
4	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 kept	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 kept	nsubj
7	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	advcl
8	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 kept	xcomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 doing	obj
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 night	det
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 doing	obl:unmarked
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happen	punct

#	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

Option 1

He would sleep much better each time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sleep	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sleep	aux
3	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 better	advmod
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 sleep	xcomp
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sleep	obl:unmarked

#	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

The house would become totally safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 house	det
2	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 become	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
4	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	totally	totally	ADV	_	6 safe	advmod
6	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 become	xcomp

#	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

It could become a habit that feeds the worry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 become	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 habit	det
5	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 become	xcomp
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 feeds	nsubj
7	feeds	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 habit	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 worry	det
9	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feeds	obj

#	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

The doubt would disappear for good after enough checks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 doubt	det
2	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 disappear	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 disappear	aux
4	disappear	disappear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 good	case
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 disappear	obl
7	after	after	ADP	_	9 checks	case
8	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 checks	amod
9	checks	check	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 disappear	obl

#	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

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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