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title: Off sick, you watch screens till 1am. What's the problem? — Why we sleep when ill · tree and pragmatics
description: Off sick, you watch screens till 1am. What's the problem? Test 7 · ★★ 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 7 · ★★ · Why we sleep when ill

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Off sick, you watch screens till 1am. What's the problem?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, problem · **What happens:** watch, be · **To what, where:** screens

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This is test 7 · ★★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Off sick, you watch screens till 1am.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:31-why-we-sleep-when-ill:t7:1
# text = Off sick, you watch screens till 1am.
1	Off	off	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	watch	watch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
6	screens	screen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	till	till	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	am	a.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | present | you | screens |  |  | till 1  am |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent screen=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's the problem?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:31-why-we-sleep-when-ill:t7:2
# text = What's the problem?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the problem |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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It makes the fever go

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:31-why-we-sleep-when-ill:t7:o1:1
# text = It makes the fever go
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	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	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | It | the fever |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | the fever *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Screens kill germs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:31-why-we-sleep-when-ill:t7:o2:1
# text = Screens kill germs
1	Screens	screen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	kill	kill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | present | Screens | germs |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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None, watching TV counts as rest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:31-why-we-sleep-when-ill:t7:o3:1
# text = None, watching TV counts as rest
1	None	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
4	TV	TV	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	counts	count	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | gerund | None *not said here* | TV |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tv=Theme |
| 2 | **count** | present | None |  |  |  |  | as rest | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as rest=Attribute |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Late screens make sleep worse, and sleep helps you heal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:31-why-we-sleep-when-ill:t7:o4:1
# text = Late screens make sleep worse, and sleep helps you heal
1	Late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	screens	screen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	heal	heal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Late screens | sleep |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sleep=Product |
| 2 | **help** | present | sleep | you |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 3 | **heal** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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