--- title: Comfort from a parent, a cuddle or sleeping nearby, helps ill childr… — Why we sleep when ill · tree and pragmatics description: Comfort from a parent, a cuddle or sleeping nearby, helps ill children feel safe, and needing it doesn't make you a baby. Who acts: Comfort, ill children, needing. 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 pragma --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/31-why-we-sleep-when-ill/14/) [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/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / [Why we sleep when ill](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/31-why-we-sleep-when-ill/) / 14 # Why we sleep when ill, sentence 14 Comfort from a parent, a cuddle or sleeping nearby, helps ill children feel safe, and needing it doesn't make you a baby. **Who acts:** Comfort, ill children, needing · **What happens:** sleep, help, feel, need, not make · **To what, where:** Comfort, you 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 (Comfort, ill children, needing), 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:14 # text = Comfort from a parent, a cuddle or sleeping nearby, helps ill children feel safe, and needing it doesn't make you a baby. # 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 ×3 1 Comfort comfort NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 2 from from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 cuddle cuddle NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 sleeping sleep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 10 nearby nearby ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 12 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 needing need VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:nsubj 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:obj 27 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sleep** | gerund | Comfort from a parent *not said here* | | | | | nearby *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **help** | present | Comfort from a parent | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **feel** | infinitive | ill children | | | | | safe *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **need** | gerund | | Comfort | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | | 5 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | needing | you | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product | 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. **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:14`. **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 ×3. **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/). - ← previous: [Why we sleep when ill, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/31-why-we-sleep-when-ill/13/) - next →: [Needles and brave faces, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/32-needles-and-brave-faces/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/31-why-we-sleep-when-ill/)