--- title: Tiredness, hunger and thirst: the body's signals — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Tiredness, hunger and thirst: the body's signals», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Your body talks to you with feelings: thirst, hunger, tiredness, feeling hot or cold, and pain are all messages that it --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/9-body-signals/) [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/) / Tiredness, hunger and thirst: the body… # Tiredness, hunger and thirst: the body's signals Lesson 9 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/9-body-signals/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/9-body-signals/0/) — Your body talks to you with feelings: thirst, hunger, tiredness, feeling hot or cold, and pain are all messages that it needs something. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/9-body-signals/1/) — Thirst means you need water; a simple check is the colour of your wee: pale yellow means you are drinking enough, dark yellow means drink more. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/9-body-signals/2/) — Hunger shows as a rumbling tummy, low energy, grumpiness and trouble paying attention; and after you eat, it takes about twenty minutes for your brain to feel full, so eating slowly helps you stop at the right time. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/9-body-signals/3/) — Tiredness shows as yawning, heavy eyes, clumsiness and a short temper; children your age need about 9 to 12 hours of sleep a night. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/9-body-signals/4/) — A boy in Arizona hiking on a hot day gets a headache and feels dizzy and sick; his body is warning him about the heat, so he stops in the shade, drinks water and tells his mum. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/9-body-signals/5/) — A boy in Arizona played football all afternoon in the heat without drinking; he got dizzy, his head pounded and he fainted, and an adult had to cool him down and call for help. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/9-body-signals/6/) — A girl in Glasgow skipped breakfast and lunch to finish a project; by the afternoon she was shaky and could not think, and she fell off her bike on the way home because she felt faint. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/9-body-signals/7/) — Thirst is the body's signal that it needs water. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/9-body-signals/8/) — Pale yellow wee means you are drinking enough; dark yellow wee means you need more water. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/9-body-signals/9/) — On hot days and during sport you should drink water often, even before you feel thirsty. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/9-body-signals/10/) — A rumbling tummy, low energy and grumpiness can be signs of hunger. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/9-body-signals/11/) — It takes about twenty minutes after you start eating for your brain to feel full. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/9-body-signals/12/) — Yawning, heavy eyes and clumsiness are signs of tiredness. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/9-body-signals/13/) — Children of 6 to 12 years need about 9 to 12 hours of sleep a night. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/9-body-signals/14/) — Shivering is your muscles making heat to warm you up. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/9-body-signals/15/) — Sweat cools you down as it dries on your skin. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/9-body-signals/16/) — Dizziness, headache and feeling sick on a hot day can mean the body is getting too hot. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/9-body-signals/17/) — Pain is a warning that something may be wrong. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/9-body-signals/18/) — Being tired makes it harder to learn, remember and stay calm. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/9-body-signals/19/) — Heat exhaustion (feeling weak, dizzy and sick from too much heat) can turn into heatstroke, a medical emergency; one warning sign is that a hot person stops sweating. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/9-body-signals/20/) — Going without food or water for a long time makes you shaky, slow to think and more likely to have accidents. - ← previous: [Posture, screens and resting your eyes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/8-posture-and-screens/) - next →: [Reasoning about the body moving in the world](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/10-reasoning-about-the-moving-body/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)