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title: It is like a city under attack switching off the fairground lights t… — Why we sleep when ill · tree and pragmatics
description: It is like a city under attack switching off the fairground lights to send all the power to the defenders: you rest, you eat less, and the energy goes to the fight. Who acts: system, attack, you, energy. A sentence of the lesson «Why we sleep when ill» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school
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# Why we sleep when ill, sentence 1

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It is like a city under attack switching off the fairground lights to send all the power to the defenders: you rest, you eat less, and the energy goes to the fight.

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**Who acts:** system, attack, you, energy · **What happens:** be, switch off, send, rest, eat, go · **To what, where:** attack, fairground lights, power, defenders, fight

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Why we sleep when ill» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (system, attack, you, energy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:031-why-we-sleep-when-ill.lesson:1
# text = It is like a city under attack switching off the fairground lights to send all the power to the defenders: you rest, you eat less, and the energy goes to the fight.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 031-why-we-sleep-when-ill.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	under	under	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	attack	attack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	switching	switch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	fairground	fairground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	defenders	defender	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	rest	rest	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:parataxis
27	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	advmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | system |  |  | attack |  | like a city | tree rules |
| 2 | **switch off** | gerund | attack *not said here* | the fairground lights |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Patient |
| 3 | **send** | to-infinitive | attack *not said here* | all power |  | the defenders |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent power=Theme to defender=Destination |
| 4 | **rest** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **eat** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **go** | present | the energy |  |  | the fight |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to fight=Initial\_Location |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:medicine:031-why-we-sleep-when-ill.lesson:1`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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