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title: Children who regularly sleep well tend to catch fewer infections, th… — Why we sleep when ill · tree and pragmatics
description: Children who regularly sleep well tend to catch fewer infections, though sleep doesn't cure everything. Who acts: Children, sleep. 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 6

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Children who regularly sleep well tend to catch fewer infections, though sleep doesn't cure everything.

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**Who acts:** Children, sleep · **What happens:** sleep, tend, catch, not cure · **To what, where:** fewer infections, everything

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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 (Children, sleep), 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:6
# text = Children who regularly sleep well tend to catch fewer infections, though sleep doesn't cure everything.
# 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	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
3	regularly	regularly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	sleep	sleep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
6	tend	tend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	infections	infection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	cure	cure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
17	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	16	obj	_	_
18	.	.	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 | **sleep** | present | Children |  |  |  |  | regularly, well *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tend** | present | Children |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **catch** | to-infinitive | Children *not said here* | fewer infections |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent infection=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **cure** | present · do-support | sleep | everything |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer everything=Source |

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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.

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

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