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title: In a Stanford study reported on sleep, what improved when players sl… — Sleep for growing and for playing well · tree and pragmatics
description: In a Stanford study reported on sleep, what improved when players slept longer? Test 10 of lesson 56 «Sleep for growing and for playing well» 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 wrong.
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# Test 10 · Sleep for growing and for playing well

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In a Stanford study reported on sleep, what improved when players slept longer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** players · **What happens:** report, improve, sleep · **To what, where:** Stanford study, sleep

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This is test 10 of lesson 56 «Sleep for growing and for playing well» 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/56-sleep-for-growing-and-for-playing-well/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:56-sleep-for-growing-and-for-playing-well:t10:1
# text = In a Stanford study reported on sleep, what improved when players slept longer?
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Stanford	Stanford	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	nsubj	_	_
10	improved	improve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
12	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
14	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **report** | participle |  | a Stanford study *not said here* |  | sleep |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **improve** | past |  |  |  | a Stanford study |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **sleep** | past | players |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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 {#o1}

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Nothing at all, it made them slower

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:56-sleep-for-growing-and-for-playing-well:t10:o1:1
# text = Nothing at all, it made them slower
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	slower	slow	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Nothing | them *= they* |  |  |  | slow *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material they=Product |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Their shoe size and their foot speed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:56-sleep-for-growing-and-for-playing-well:t10:o2:1
# text = Their shoe size and their foot speed
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	shoe	shoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

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Their free-throw accuracy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:56-sleep-for-growing-and-for-playing-well:t10:o3:1
# text = Their free-throw accuracy
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
2	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	throw	throw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	accuracy	accuracy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Their height, by two centimetres

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:56-sleep-for-growing-and-for-playing-well:t10:o4:1
# text = Their height, by two centimetres
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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