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title: my brother says sleep is just wasted time, nothing happens. true? — Sleep, exercise and growing up · tree and pragmatics
description: my brother says sleep is just wasted time, nothing happens. true? Test 12 · ★★ of lesson 38 «Sleep, exercise and growing up» of the world 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 12 · ★★ · Sleep, exercise and growing up

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my brother says sleep is just wasted time, nothing happens. true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** brother, nothing · **What happens:** say, waste, happen · **To what, where:** sleep · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 38 «Sleep, exercise and growing up» of the world 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/world/38-sleep-exercise-growing/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:38-sleep-exercise-growing:t12:1
# text = my brother says sleep is just wasted time, nothing happens. true?
1	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	wasted	waste	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	11	nsubj	_	_
11	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
13	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | my brother |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **waste** | present · passive |  | sleep |  |  | time |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **happen** | present | nothing |  |  |  |  | true *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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No, sleep makes muscles weaker

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:38-sleep-exercise-growing:t12:o1:1
# text = No, sleep makes muscles weaker
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	weaker	weak	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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No, the body repairs itself and the brain stores what it learned

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:38-sleep-exercise-growing:t12:o2:1
# text = No, the body repairs itself and the brain stores what it learned
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	repairs	repair	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	stores	store	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	obj	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repair** | present | the body | body |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient |
| 2 | **store** | present | the brain |  |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **learn** | past | brain |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yes, only dreams happen in sleep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:38-sleep-exercise-growing:t12:o3:1
# text = Yes, only dreams happen in sleep
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	happen	happen	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | present | dreams |  |  | sleep |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in sleep=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yes, the body switches off fully

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:38-sleep-exercise-growing:t12:o4:1
# text = Yes, the body switches off fully
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	switches	switch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	fully	fully	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **switch off** | present | the body |  |  |  |  | fully *property* | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP 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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