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title: Short nights add up like a debt, a big Saturday lie-in can't pay a w… — Sleep for growing and for playing well · tree and pragmatics
description: Short nights add up like a debt, a big Saturday lie-in can't pay a whole week back, and late cola, long afternoon naps and «no rest days» all steal from the sleep that turns practice into fitness. Who acts: Short nights, Saturday lie, big late cola, sleep. A sentence of the lesson «Sleep for growing
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# Sleep for growing and for playing well, sentence 3

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Short nights add up like a debt, a big Saturday lie-in can't pay a whole week back, and late cola, long afternoon naps and «no rest days» all steal from the sleep that turns practice into fitness.

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**Who acts:** Short nights, Saturday lie, big late cola, sleep · **What happens:** add up, not pay, steal, turn · **To what, where:** sleep, practice, fitness

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sleep for growing and for playing well» 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 (Short nights, Saturday lie, big late cola, sleep), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:056-sleep-for-growing-and-for-playing-well.lesson:3
# text = Short nights add up like a debt, a big Saturday lie-in can't pay a whole week back, and late cola, long afternoon naps and «no rest days» all steal from the sleep that turns practice into fitness.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 056-sleep-for-growing-and-for-playing-well.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	Short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	add	add	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	debt	debt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
10	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
11	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
14	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	pay	pay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	back	back	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
24	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	cola	cola	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	naps	nap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
32	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	34	det	_	_
33	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=29:conj
35	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
36	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
37	steal	steal	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
38	from	from	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj	_	_
42	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	acl:relcl	_	_
43	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
44	into	into	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	fitness	fitness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
46	.	.	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 | **add up** *speech: assert* | present | Short nights |  |  |  |  | like a debt | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **pay** | can | Saturday lie |  |  |  | week |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **steal** | present | a big late cola and long afternoon naps and no rest days |  |  | the sleep |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **turn** | present | the sleep | practice |  | fitness |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent practice=Theme into fitness=Trajectory |

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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:056-sleep-for-growing-and-for-playing-well.lesson:3`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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