--- title: Ill on match day: play or stay home? — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Ill on match day: play or stay home?», a lesson of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Many coaches use the «above the neck» check: a runny nose or a slightly sore throat with no fever may allow gentle play if you feel --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/60-ill-on-match-day-play-or-stay-home/) [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/) / Ill on match day: play or stay home? # Ill on match day: play or stay home? Lesson 60 of the medicine course of Mova's primary school: 12 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/60-ill-on-match-day-play-or-stay-home/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/60-ill-on-match-day-play-or-stay-home/0/) — Many coaches use the «above the neck» check: a runny nose or a slightly sore throat with no fever may allow gentle play if you feel well, but a chesty cough, aching body, tummy bug or fever are «below the neck» signs and mean no sport today. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/60-ill-on-match-day-play-or-stay-home/3/) — Hiding a fever with medicine, playing through chickenpox in long sleeves, or rushing back at full speed after flu just turns one ill player into a longer illness, and often into several ill teammates. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/60-ill-on-match-day-play-or-stay-home/5/) — The «above the neck» idea: with only a runny nose or slightly sore throat and no fever, light play may be OK if you feel well; stop if you feel worse. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/60-ill-on-match-day-play-or-stay-home/6/) — A chesty cough, body aches or a tummy bug are «below the neck» signs, and hard exercise then makes you sicker and slower to recover. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/60-ill-on-match-day-play-or-stay-home/7/) — Normal body temperature is about 37°C, and 38°C or more is a fever; doctors say no sport with a fever. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/60-ill-on-match-day-play-or-stay-home/10/) — The NHS says stay off school until 48 hours after the last time you were sick or had diarrhoea. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/60-ill-on-match-day-play-or-stay-home/11/) — The NHS says children with chickenpox stay away from school until all the spots have crusted over, usually about 5 days after they appear. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/60-ill-on-match-day-play-or-stay-home/12/) — Chickenpox spreads through the air as well as by touch, so covering the spots does not stop it. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/60-ill-on-match-day-play-or-stay-home/13/) — An ill player can pass the bug to teammates, so more players are off the next week. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/60-ill-on-match-day-play-or-stay-home/14/) — Fitness drops during illness; a common coaches' rule is to come back gently and build up over a few sessions. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/60-ill-on-match-day-play-or-stay-home/15/) — Colds often trigger asthma, so a child with asthma and a cold keeps the reliever inhaler close and tells the coach. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/60-ill-on-match-day-play-or-stay-home/16/) — Headache or feeling sick after a knock to the head can mean concussion, and the UK rule is «if in doubt, sit them out». - ← previous: [Changing-room germs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/59-changing-room-germs/) - next →: [The World Cup](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/61-the-world-cup/) - ↑ back to [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/)