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title: Light layers and drinks are better than piling on heavy blankets, wh… — Why we sleep when ill · tree and pragmatics
description: Light layers and drinks are better than piling on heavy blankets, which can make a fever higher and more uncomfortable. Who acts: Light layers, heavy blankets. A sentence of the lesson «Why we sleep when ill» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Why we sleep when ill, sentence 10

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Light layers and drinks are better than piling on heavy blankets, which can make a fever higher and more uncomfortable.

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**Who acts:** Light layers, heavy blankets · **What happens:** be, pile, make · **To what, where:** heavy blankets, fever

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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 (Light layers, heavy blankets), 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:10
# text = Light layers and drinks are better than piling on heavy blankets, which can make a fever higher and more uncomfortable.
# 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): no change
1	Light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	layers	layer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	drinks	drink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
7	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	piling	pile	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	blankets	blanket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	xcomp	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
21	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | Light layers and drinks |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pile** | gerund | Light layers and drinks *not said here* |  |  | heavy blankets |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on blanket=Destination |
| 3 | **make** | can | heavy blankets | a fever |  |  |  | high *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fever=Product |

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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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**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): no change. **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.

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