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title: Sleeping a lot when ill is not laziness; during sleep the body repai… — Why we sleep when ill · tree and pragmatics
description: Sleeping a lot when ill is not laziness; during sleep the body repairs itself and the immune system works hard. Who acts: body, immune system. 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 of every clause.
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# Why we sleep when ill, sentence 5

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Sleeping a lot when ill is not laziness; during sleep the body repairs itself and the immune system works hard.

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**Who acts:** body, immune system · **What happens:** sleep, not be, repair, work · **To what, where:** lot, laziness, body

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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 (body, immune system), 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:5
# text = Sleeping a lot when ill is not laziness; during sleep the body repairs itself and the immune system works hard.
# 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	Sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	nsubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	laziness	laziness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	during	during	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	repairs	repair	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
15	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	immune	immune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
21	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **sleep** | gerund |  | a lot |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present |  | laziness |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **repair** | present | the body | body |  |  | during sleep |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient |
| 4 | **work** | present | the immune system |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:5`.

**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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