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title: Appetite often drops during an infection; eating little for a day or… — Why we sleep when ill · tree and pragmatics
description: Appetite often drops during an infection; eating little for a day or two is fine, but drinking enough is important. Who acts: Appetite, eating, drinking. 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 ev
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# Why we sleep when ill, sentence 7

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Appetite often drops during an infection; eating little for a day or two is fine, but drinking enough is important.

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**Who acts:** Appetite, eating, drinking · **What happens:** drop, eat, be, drink · **To what, where:** little

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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 (Appetite, eating, drinking), 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:7
# text = Appetite often drops during an infection; eating little for a day or two is fine, but drinking enough is important.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1
1	Appetite	appetite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	drops	drop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	during	during	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	infection	infection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
8	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	csubj	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	conj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	csubj	_	_
20	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **drop** | present | Appetite |  |  |  | during a infection | often *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund |  | little |  |  | day |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | eating |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **drink** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | drinking |  |  |  |  | important *property* | tree rules |

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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): R2-punct-next ×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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