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title: One bad night before a big game usually does little harm, because ex… — Sleep for growing and for playing well · tree and pragmatics
description: One bad night before a big game usually does little harm, because excitement helps on the day; a whole week of short nights hurts much more. Who acts: One bad night, excitement, whole week. A sentence of the lesson «Sleep for growing and for playing well» of the medicine course of Mova's primary sch
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# Sleep for growing and for playing well, sentence 8

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One bad night before a big game usually does little harm, because excitement helps on the day; a whole week of short nights hurts much more.

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**Who acts:** One bad night, excitement, whole week · **What happens:** do, help, hurt · **To what, where:** little harm

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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 (One bad night, excitement, whole week), 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:8
# text = One bad night before a big game usually does little harm, because excitement helps on the day; a whole week of short nights hurts much more.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	excitement	excitement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
26	hurts	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
27	much	much	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	26	advmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **do** | present | One bad night before a big game | little harm |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality |
| 2 | **help** | present | excitement |  |  |  | day |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hurt** | present | a whole week of short nights |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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): R7-rel-agree ×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.

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