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title: Thabo: «Ag, sleep is for the weak, bru» («bru» is South African for… — Sleep for growing and for playing well · tree and pragmatics
description: Thabo: «Ag, sleep is for the weak, bru» («bru» is South African for bro). Which is true? Test 9 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 right.
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# Test 9 · Sleep for growing and for playing well

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Thabo: «Ag, sleep is for the weak, bru» («bru» is South African for bro). Which is true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Thabo sleep, bru · **What happens:** be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Thabo: «Ag, sleep is for the weak, bru» («bru» is South African for bro).

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:56-sleep-for-growing-and-for-playing-well:t9:1
# text = Thabo: «Ag, sleep is for the weak, bru» («bru» is South African for bro).
1	Thabo	Thabo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Ag	Ag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	bru	bru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	bru	bru	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	South	south	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Thabo sleep |  |  |  |  | weak *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | bru |  |  |  |  | bro *vocative*; african, south *property* | tree rules |

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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:* Which is true?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:56-sleep-for-growing-and-for-playing-well:t9:2
# text = Which is true?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

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

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Tough players need their sleep too

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:56-sleep-for-growing-and-for-playing-well:t9:o1:1
# text = Tough players need their sleep too
1	Tough	tough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | Tough players | players's sleep |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sleep=Theme |
| 2 | **sleep** |  | players *= player* |  |  |  |  |  | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Sleep makes ankles weaker

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:56-sleep-for-growing-and-for-playing-well:t9:o2:1
# text = Sleep makes ankles weaker
1	Sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	ankles	ankle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	weaker	weak	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Sleep | ankles |  |  |  | weak *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ankle=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Only goalkeepers need sleep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:56-sleep-for-growing-and-for-playing-well:t9:o3:1
# text = Only goalkeepers need sleep
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	goalkeepers	goalkeeper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | goalkeepers | sleep |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sleep=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Weak players are the ones who need less sleep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:56-sleep-for-growing-and-for-playing-well:t9:o4:1
# text = Weak players are the ones who need less sleep
1	Weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Weak players | the ones |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **need** | present | the ones | less sleep |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sleep=Theme |

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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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