--- title: Sleep and healthy eating — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Sleep and healthy eating», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Sleep and food are the body's fuel and repair: while you sleep the body grows and fixes itself and the brain sorts what you learned, and food gi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/80-sleep-and-healthy-eating/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / Sleep and healthy eating # Sleep and healthy eating Lesson 80 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 22 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/80-sleep-and-healthy-eating/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/80-sleep-and-healthy-eating/0/) — Sleep and food are the body's fuel and repair: while you sleep the body grows and fixes itself and the brain sorts what you learned, and food gives the body what it needs to work. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/80-sleep-and-healthy-eating/1/) — Good sleep comes from a calm evening: screens away about an hour before bed, no caffeine, a dark, quiet, cool bedroom and wake-up times that are similar every day. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/80-sleep-and-healthy-eating/2/) — A good plate is about half vegetables and fruit, a quarter grains like bread or rice, and a quarter protein like meat, fish, beans or eggs, because different foods give different things. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/80-sleep-and-healthy-eating/3/) — Food can also make you ill: germs grow fast in warm food left out, in spoiled food, and in raw eggs, flour and meat, so food is washed, kept cool and cooked properly. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/80-sleep-and-healthy-eating/4/) — A girl in Arizona does not like broccoli at first, but she tries a small bite at a few dinners, and after a while she finds she likes it with cheese. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/80-sleep-and-healthy-eating/5/) — The light and excitement of screens make it harder to fall asleep, so screens are put away about an hour before bed. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/80-sleep-and-healthy-eating/6/) — Lying quietly, breathing slowly or reading a calm book helps the body relax when you cannot sleep. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/80-sleep-and-healthy-eating/7/) — Caffeine in cola and energy drinks keeps you awake, and energy drinks are not for children. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/80-sleep-and-healthy-eating/8/) — Similar wake-up times every day give the body a steady rhythm. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/80-sleep-and-healthy-eating/10/) — Sleepwalking and sleep-talking are common in children and usually harmless, and a parent can keep you safe at night. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/80-sleep-and-healthy-eating/12/) — Tastes change, so trying a small bite of a new food several times helps you learn to like it. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/80-sleep-and-healthy-eating/13/) — Eating while running or lying down can make you choke, so you sit down to eat. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/80-sleep-and-healthy-eating/14/) — It is all right to stop eating when you are full and say politely that you have had enough. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/80-sleep-and-healthy-eating/15/) — Crisps and sweets have little goodness and lots of salt, sugar and fat, so treats are kept small and occasional. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/80-sleep-and-healthy-eating/16/) — Fruit and vegetables are washed before eating to remove dirt and chemicals. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/80-sleep-and-healthy-eating/17/) — Spoiled food, food past its use-by date and food left out for hours on a hot day can cause food poisoning. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/80-sleep-and-healthy-eating/18/) — Raw eggs, raw flour and uncooked meat can carry germs, so they are eaten only when properly cooked. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/80-sleep-and-healthy-eating/19/) — A boy in California played games until 2 a.m. most nights; at school he fell asleep in class, forgot his homework and snapped at his friends. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/80-sleep-and-healthy-eating/20/) — A girl in Sydney drank fizzy drinks instead of water every day; she had fillings in four teeth before she was ten. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/80-sleep-and-healthy-eating/21/) — Children of 9–10 need about 9 to 12 hours of sleep, and too little makes it harder to learn, remember and stay calm. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/80-sleep-and-healthy-eating/22/) — Breakfast gives the body and brain fuel for the morning; skipping it can leave you wobbly and unable to focus. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/80-sleep-and-healthy-eating/23/) — Sugary drinks are one of the biggest causes of tooth decay and extra weight in children. - ← previous: [Germs, sneezes and dressing for the weather](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/79-germs-sneezes-and-dressing-for-the-weather/) - next →: [Food, drinks and feeling ill](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/81-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)