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description: Ascertain the principal reason for which professional athletes regulate their sleep. Exam question 4 of lesson 63 «Famous athletes and what being a professional takes» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's 
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# Exam question 4 · Famous athletes and what being a professional takes

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Ascertain the principal reason for which professional athletes regulate their sleep.

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, professional athletes, athletes · **What happens:** ascertain, regulate, sleep · **To what, where:** principal reason, sleep

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 63 «Famous athletes and what being a professional takes» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/63-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:63-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes:e4:1
# text = Ascertain the principal reason for which professional athletes regulate their sleep.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obl	_	_
7	professional	professional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	athletes	athlete	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	regulate	regulate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the principal reason |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Topic |
| 2 | **regulate** | present | professional athletes | athletes's sleep |  |  |  | for the principal reason | tree rules |
| 3 | **sleep** |  | athletes *= athlete* |  |  |  |  |  | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=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 {#o1}

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Sleep diminishes muscular strength

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:63-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes:e4:o1:1
# text = Sleep diminishes muscular strength
1	Sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	diminishes	diminish	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	muscular	muscular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **diminish** | present | Sleep | muscular strength |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer strength=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Sleep is prohibited during competition by the governing bodies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:63-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes:e4:o2:1
# text = Sleep is prohibited during competition by the governing bodies
1	Sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	prohibited	prohibit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	during	during	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	competition	competition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	governing	governing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prohibit** | present · passive | the governing bodies | Sleep |  |  | during competition |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer subject=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Muscles are repaired and strengthened during rest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:63-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes:e4:o3:1
# text = Muscles are repaired and strengthened during rest
1	Muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	repaired	repair	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	strengthened	strengthen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
6	during	during	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 | **repair** | present · passive |  | Muscles |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **strengthen** | participle |  |  |  |  | during rest |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Sleep replaces the need for nourishment

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:63-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes:e4:o4:1
# text = Sleep replaces the need for nourishment
1	Sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	replaces	replace	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	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	nourishment	nourishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **replace** | present | Sleep | the need |  |  |  | for nourishment | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme need=Co-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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