--- title: Food, drinks and feeling ill — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Food, drinks and feeling ill», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: What you eat and drink is fuel for your body: water keeps every part working, and fruit, yoghurt or nuts between meals keep your energy stea --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/81-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill/) [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/) / Food, drinks and feeling ill # Food, drinks and feeling ill Lesson 81 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 21 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/81-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/81-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill/0/) — What you eat and drink is fuel for your body: water keeps every part working, and fruit, yoghurt or nuts between meals keep your energy steady instead of up and down. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/81-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill/2/) — When you are ill, your body is busy fighting germs; it needs rest, fluids and time, and you stay home so you do not pass the germs on. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/81-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill/3/) — A girl in Manchester wakes up hot and shivery; she tells her mum, stays in bed with a drink of water, and is back at school after her fever has been gone for a day. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/81-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill/4/) — Share food with a friend only if neither of you has an allergy and an adult agrees. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/81-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill/5/) — A healthy snack between meals, like fruit, yoghurt or nuts if you are not allergic, keeps your energy steady. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/81-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill/6/) — A person who is choking but can still cough should keep coughing, because coughing is the body's own way of pushing the food out; if they cannot breathe, speak or cough, shout for an adult and call the emergency number. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/81-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill/7/) — Grapes should be cut lengthways for small children, because small round food can block a small airway. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/81-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill/9/) — Children need about six to eight cups of water a day, and more when it is hot or they are active. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/81-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill/10/) — Water and milk are the best drinks; juice is very sugary, so have only a small glass once a day. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/81-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill/11/) — Alcohol, coffee and energy drinks are not for children, because they can harm a growing body. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/81-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill/12/) — With a fever, tell a parent, rest and drink plenty; stay off school until you have had no fever for at least a day. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/81-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill/13/) — After being sick or having diarrhoea, stay home and sip water; in the UK children stay off school until 48 hours after the last time. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/81-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill/14/) — A rash that does not fade when you press a glass on it needs urgent medical help, because it can be a sign of meningitis, a very dangerous illness. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/81-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill/15/) — Most sore throats get better by themselves in a few days with drinks and rest. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/81-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill/16/) — Scratching chickenpox spots can cause infection and scars, so keep nails short and use the cooling lotion an adult gives you. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/81-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill/17/) — A boy in Arizona played football all afternoon in the heat without drinking; he got a headache, felt dizzy and had to be cooled down by the coach. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/81-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill/18/) — A girl in Leeds ate chicken that had been left out on the counter all day; she was sick with food poisoning for two days. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/81-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill/19/) — In hot weather children can become dehydrated quickly, with headache, tiredness and dizziness as the first signs; then you stop, sit in the shade, drink water and tell an adult. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/81-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill/20/) — When parents are «splitting up», they are separating or divorcing, and a child can feel ill from the worry. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/81-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill/21/) — Someone who says they are «lovesick» means they feel so sad or excited about a person they like that they do not feel like eating; it is not a real illness. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/81-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill/22/) — Cooked food left out at room temperature for hours can grow germs that cause food poisoning. - ← previous: [Sleep and healthy eating](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/80-sleep-and-healthy-eating/) - next →: [Getting better, caring for others and medicines](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/82-getting-better-and-medicines/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)