--- title: Gaming nights and the morning after — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Gaming nights and the morning after», a lesson of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A football game on a console trains your thumbs; a real match needs legs, lungs, eyes and a rested brain, and a late gaming night tak --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/57-gaming-nights-and-the-morning-after/) [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/) / Gaming nights and the morning after # Gaming nights and the morning after Lesson 57 of the medicine course of Mova's primary school: 15 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/57-gaming-nights-and-the-morning-after/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/57-gaming-nights-and-the-morning-after/0/) — A football game on a console trains your thumbs; a real match needs legs, lungs, eyes and a rested brain, and a late gaming night takes from exactly those. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/57-gaming-nights-and-the-morning-after/2/) — Games are built to make you want the next match, time feels shorter while you play, and anger at a last-minute loss pumps out adrenaline, so the brain stays switched on long after the console is off. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/57-gaming-nights-and-the-morning-after/3/) — Lily's mum in Perth has a rule, «Arvo is for gaming, night is for sleeping, no whinging» (arvo is Australian for afternoon, whinging is moaning), and Lily sets her own timer, so the stop is calm and sleep comes quicker. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/57-gaming-nights-and-the-morning-after/4/) — A console game trains thumbs and quick eyes, but not running, balance, touch on a real ball or fitness. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/57-gaming-nights-and-the-morning-after/5/) — Each game of a football video game takes about 15 minutes, so «just one more» eight times is about 2 hours. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/57-gaming-nights-and-the-morning-after/6/) — Anger and excitement release adrenaline, which speeds up the heart and wakes the brain, and it takes time to calm down before sleep. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/57-gaming-nights-and-the-morning-after/7/) — A tired brain is worse at controlling temper, so players short of sleep argue more and get booked more easily. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/57-gaming-nights-and-the-morning-after/8/) — In football, two yellow cards in one match make a red card, and the player is sent off. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/57-gaming-nights-and-the-morning-after/9/) — After a night with no food the body needs fuel; skipping breakfast can leave a player dizzy or wobbly. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/57-gaming-nights-and-the-morning-after/10/) — Phone buzzes and lights can pull you out of deep sleep even if you don't remember waking, and broken sleep refreshes you less. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/57-gaming-nights-and-the-morning-after/11/) — A whole night awake, like at a sleepover where nobody sleeps, makes balance, reactions and judgement much worse. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/57-gaming-nights-and-the-morning-after/12/) — Energy drinks are full of caffeine and often sugar; they hide tiredness for a while, then you feel worse, and most big UK supermarkets stopped selling them to under-16s in 2018. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/57-gaming-nights-and-the-morning-after/13/) — Stopping screens at a fixed time, with a quiet wind-down before bed, helps children fall asleep faster. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/57-gaming-nights-and-the-morning-after/14/) — A very tired brain can switch off for a second or two, called a microsleep, even with the eyes open. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/57-gaming-nights-and-the-morning-after/15/) — «Mardy» is Northern English for grumpy and sulky, «wee buns» is Northern Irish for dead easy, and «yaar» is Hindi and Urdu for mate. - ← previous: [Sleep for growing and for playing well](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/56-sleep-for-growing-and-for-playing-well/) - next →: [Posture and eyes for sporty kids](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/58-posture-and-eyes-for-sporty-kids/) - ↑ back to [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/)