--- title: Water, fizzy drinks and sports drinks — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Water, fizzy drinks and sports drinks», a lesson of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: About 60% of a child's body is water, so a 30 kg child carries around 18 kg of it, and every drop of sweat on a hot run is some of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/51-water-fizzy-drinks-and-sports-drinks/) [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/) / Water, fizzy drinks and sports drinks # Water, fizzy drinks and sports drinks Lesson 51 of the medicine course of Mova's primary school: 13 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/51-water-fizzy-drinks-and-sports-drinks/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/51-water-fizzy-drinks-and-sports-drinks/0/) — About 60% of a child's body is water, so a 30 kg child carries around 18 kg of it, and every drop of sweat on a hot run is some of that water leaving. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/51-water-fizzy-drinks-and-sports-drinks/2/) — Small sips before, during and after sport top you up; gulping two whole bottles at once just sloshes about in your tummy. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/51-water-fizzy-drinks-and-sports-drinks/3/) — A can of cola has about 35 g of sugar, more than the whole day's limit for a child of 7 to 10, and sports drinks were made for adults doing long hard exercise, so for a kids' match plain tap water does the job. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/51-water-fizzy-drinks-and-sports-drinks/4/) — Sweat is water leaving the body, and losing too much makes you thirsty, tired, headachy and slower. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/51-water-fizzy-drinks-and-sports-drinks/6/) — Pee colour is a simple check: pale straw means you've drunk enough, and dark yellow often means you need more water. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/51-water-fizzy-drinks-and-sports-drinks/7/) — Swimmers sweat too, even though they don't notice because they are wet, so they need drinks at the poolside. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/51-water-fizzy-drinks-and-sports-drinks/8/) — In the UK, Australia and many other countries tap water is tested and safe, and it hydrates just as well as bottled water. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/51-water-fizzy-drinks-and-sports-drinks/9/) — The UK daily limit of free sugars for children aged 7 to 10 is about 24 g, about 6 sugar cubes of roughly 4 g each. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/51-water-fizzy-drinks-and-sports-drinks/10/) — A 330 ml can of regular cola has about 35 g of sugar, about 9 cubes, more than that whole daily limit. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/51-water-fizzy-drinks-and-sports-drinks/11/) — Fizz is gas, so gulping fizzy drinks fills the stomach with bubbles and can cause burping and a stitch. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/51-water-fizzy-drinks-and-sports-drinks/12/) — Sports drinks were designed for long, hard exercise; for a child playing for under an hour, water is enough and the extra sugar is just extra sugar. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/51-water-fizzy-drinks-and-sports-drinks/13/) — Sports drinks are sugary and acidic, so sipping them slowly for hours bathes the teeth again and again and can cause decay. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/51-water-fizzy-drinks-and-sports-drinks/15/) — Drinking huge amounts at once before a game makes you sloshy and sick; drink a glass or so before and sip during. - ← previous: [Heat, sun and cold on sports day](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/50-heat-sun-and-cold-on-sports-day/) - next →: [Energy drinks: why they're not for kids](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/52-energy-drinks-why-theyre-not-for-kids/) - ↑ back to [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/)