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title: "not hungry, can I just not eat or drink at all?" — Why we sleep when ill · tree and pragmatics
description: "not hungry, can I just not eat or drink at all?" Test 4 · ★★ of lesson 31 «Why we sleep when ill» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 4 · ★★ · Why we sleep when ill

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"not hungry, can I just not eat or drink at all?"

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** not eat, drink · **To what, where:** all

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This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 31 «Why we sleep when ill» of the medicine 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/medicine/31-why-we-sleep-when-ill/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:31-why-we-sleep-when-ill:t4:1
# text = "not hungry, can I just not eat or drink at all?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **eat** *in a quote* | can | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **drink** *in a quote* | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  | all |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Eat what you can, but keep drinking

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:31-why-we-sleep-when-ill:t4:o1:1
# text = Eat what you can, but keep drinking
1	Eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	1	obj	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
| 2 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **drink** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Only drink fizzy drinks for the energy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:31-why-we-sleep-when-ill:t4:o2:1
# text = Only drink fizzy drinks for the energy
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	drink	drink	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fizzy	fizzy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	drinks	drink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | imperative | you *not said here* | fizzy drinks |  |  |  | for the energy | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yes, nothing at all, the germ starves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:31-why-we-sleep-when-ill:t4:o3:1
# text = Yes, nothing at all, the germ starves
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	9	nsubj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	germ	germ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	starves	starve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **starve** | present | nothing |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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No, eat a big hot dinner to keep strong

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:31-why-we-sleep-when-ill:t4:o4:1
# text = No, eat a big hot dinner to keep strong
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
10	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | imperative | you *not said here* | a big hot dinner |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient |
| 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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