--- title: Heat, sun and cold on sports day — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Heat, sun and cold on sports day», a lesson of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Your body is like an engine with a radiator: running makes heat, and sweat carries it away, but on a hot day you can lose more water tha --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/50-heat-sun-and-cold-on-sports-day/) [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/) / Heat, sun and cold on sports day # Heat, sun and cold on sports day Lesson 50 of the medicine course of Mova's primary school: 17 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/medicine/50-heat-sun-and-cold-on-sports-day/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/50-heat-sun-and-cold-on-sports-day/0/) — Your body is like an engine with a radiator: running makes heat, and sweat carries it away, but on a hot day you can lose more water than you take in and start to overheat. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/50-heat-sun-and-cold-on-sports-day/1/) — Olivia in Essex runs the 400 m on a 30°C sports day and ends up dizzy, sick, pale and sweaty with a headache: that is heat exhaustion, and shade, lying down with her feet up, sips of water and cooling her skin usually fix it within about 30 minutes. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/50-heat-sun-and-cold-on-sports-day/2/) — If someone is still unwell after 30 minutes of cooling, or is confused, hot but no longer sweating, has a fit or stops responding, it is heatstroke, and an adult calls 999. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/50-heat-sun-and-cold-on-sports-day/3/) — Cold is a danger too: on a dreich, Baltic morning in Edinburgh (Scots for grey and drizzly, and slang for freezing), cold muscles strain more easily, and a child who is shivering hard, pale and mumbling must be warmed slowly, never dumped in a hot bath. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/50-heat-sun-and-cold-on-sports-day/4/) — Heat exhaustion signs include headache, dizziness, feeling sick, being very thirsty, heavy sweating, pale clammy skin and cramps, and children can get it as well as adults. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/50-heat-sun-and-cold-on-sports-day/5/) — For heat exhaustion: move to a cool or shady place, lie down with the feet raised a little, sip water, cool the skin, and tell an adult; it should get better within about 30 minutes. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/50-heat-sun-and-cold-on-sports-day/7/) — Water is the best drink for children during sport; energy drinks are full of caffeine and sugar and are not for children. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/50-heat-sun-and-cold-on-sports-day/8/) — Pouring water over your head cools the skin a little, but only drinking puts back the water lost in sweat. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/50-heat-sun-and-cold-on-sports-day/9/) — UV light from the sun gets through cloud, so sun cream is still needed on grey days. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/50-heat-sun-and-cold-on-sports-day/10/) — Sun cream should be put on again at least every 2 hours and after sweating hard or towelling, because sweat and towels wipe it off. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/50-heat-sun-and-cold-on-sports-day/11/) — The sun's UV is strongest around the middle of the day, roughly 11 am to 3 pm in the UK summer, so shade between events and a hat help. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/50-heat-sun-and-cold-on-sports-day/12/) — In great heat adults can pause or move events, and a friend who looks wobbly should be reported to an adult at once. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/50-heat-sun-and-cold-on-sports-day/13/) — Cold muscles are stiffer and easier to strain, so warm layers and a proper warm-up help on cold days. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/50-heat-sun-and-cold-on-sports-day/14/) — Shivering hard, pale skin, slurred speech and being very sleepy can be signs a person is getting dangerously cold. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/50-heat-sun-and-cold-on-sports-day/15/) — Warm a cold person slowly: indoors, dry clothes, blankets and a warm drink; the NHS says not to use a hot bath or rub their arms and legs, and very drowsy or not responding means 999. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/50-heat-sun-and-cold-on-sports-day/16/) — You still lose water in the cold through sweat and breath, and you may feel less thirsty, so you still need to drink. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/50-heat-sun-and-cold-on-sports-day/17/) — «Togs» is Australian for swimming costume, «stinker» means a very hot day there, and in Canada a «toque» is a woolly hat. - ← previous: [Blisters, astro burns and nosebleeds mid-match](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/49-blisters-astro-burns-and-nosebleeds-mid-match/) - next →: [Water, fizzy drinks and sports drinks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/51-water-fizzy-drinks-and-sports-drinks/) - ↑ back to [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/)