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title: Sleep for growing and for playing well — how Mova does on the tests · Medicine
description: Lesson 56 of the medicine course of Mova's primary school: 6 of 11 tests right, exam 1 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Sleep for growing and for playing well

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**Tests:** 6 of 11 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** plain · **Understood:** 6 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 56 of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/56-sleep-for-growing-and-for-playing-well/).

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Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson's questions in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/56-sleep-for-growing-and-for-playing-well/).

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### Test 1 · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Jayden in Ohio: «I'll just catch it all up Saturday, bro, easy». What's the snag?

- **1.** Weekends have extra hours — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Debt that big can't be repaid in one lie-in — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** He can store sleep for later — no support
- **4.** Saturday sleep counts double — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/56-sleep-for-growing-and-for-playing-well/t1/)

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### Test 2 · right ✓ {#t2}

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Callum's dad groans «bloody hell, son» after a late dive. Best fix for next week?

- **1.** An earlier bedtime all week — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Two energy drinks before kick-off — no support
- **3.** Running extra laps at midnight — no support
- **4.** New, bigger gloves for his hands — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/56-sleep-for-growing-and-for-playing-well/t2/)

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### Test 3 · right ✓ {#t3}

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Mia's big sister: «Sleep's a waste, pros train instead». What would a sports scientist say?

- **1.** Sleep is part of training — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 13
- **2.** Only lazy players bother with sleep — no support
- **3.** Training late at night works better — no support
- **4.** Pros never sleep more than 5 hours — score -4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 13, against -4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 56, line 1: «Sleep isn't a break from training, it is the part of training where the body does its building: muscles repair the tiny strains of the day, the brain stores th…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same thing acted on «part» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/56-sleep-for-growing-and-for-playing-well/t3/)

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### Test 4 · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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What would happen if Sienna drank water instead of cola before her game?

- **1.** She'd need a 3-hour nap — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** She'd play much worse — no support
- **3.** She'd be wide awake till 3 am anyway — no support
- **4.** She'd find it easier to fall asleep — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/56-sleep-for-growing-and-for-playing-well/t4/)

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### Test 5 · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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A cartoon hero stays up all week, then wins the final with a perfect save. Real life?

- **1.** Cartoon keepers are always right — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Tired keepers react more slowly — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Keepers need no sleep at all — no support
- **4.** Less sleep makes keepers sharper — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/56-sleep-for-growing-and-for-playing-well/t5/)

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### Test 6 · right ✓ {#t6}

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Oliver: «lights out at half seven? that's for babies». Coach's real reason?

- **1.** Lights cost far too much after eight o'clock — no support
- **2.** His body needs 10 hours before 5:30 — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **3.** The pool closes at half seven — no support
- **4.** Babies swim faster than him — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 54, line 8: «Starchy food is great fuel, but the body also needs protein, fruit and veg, dairy and some fats, because no single food has everything.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «need» (+2); the same doer «body» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/56-sleep-for-growing-and-for-playing-well/t6/)

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### Test 7 · right ✓ {#t7}

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Priya's brother: «that's well sus». Which bit is right in Priya's plan?

- **1.** Naps add a centimetre each — no support
- **2.** Sleeping well lets her grow as planned — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score -1
- **3.** Sleep stretches the bones — no support
- **4.** Sleeping 15 hours makes her massive — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score -1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 52, line 2: «Priya reads a can, «32 mg caffeine per 100 ml, that's tiny, innit?», but her brother does the sum: a 250 ml can is 2.5 lots of 100 ml, so 2.5 × 32 = 80 mg, a b…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/56-sleep-for-growing-and-for-playing-well/t7/)

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### Test 8 · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Ava, still awake at 2 am before her final, panics. What's the calm truth?

- **1.** She must play without sleeping again — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Her body can't play after one bad night — no support
- **3.** One rough night rarely ruins a game — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** She has lost the match already — no support

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**Why:** Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/56-sleep-for-growing-and-for-playing-well/t8/)

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### Test 9 · right ✓ {#t9}

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Thabo: «Ag, sleep is for the weak, bru» («bru» is South African for bro). Which is true?

- **1.** Tough players need their sleep too — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **2.** Sleep makes ankles weaker — score 1
- **3.** Only goalkeepers need sleep — score 3
- **4.** Weak players are the ones who need less sleep — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 3, tied with another option at 3 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 39, line 10: «During deep sleep the body repairs muscles; children of 6 to 12 need about 9 to 12 hours a night, and missing sleep before a big event makes you perform worse.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «need» (+2); the same thing acted on «missing sleep» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/56-sleep-for-growing-and-for-playing-well/t9/)

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### Test 10 · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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In a Stanford study reported on sleep, what improved when players slept longer?

- **1.** Nothing at all, it made them slower — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Their shoe size and their foot speed — no support
- **3.** Their free-throw accuracy — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Their height, by two centimetres — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/56-sleep-for-growing-and-for-playing-well/t10/)

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### Test 11 · right ✓ {#t11}

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Ella says her day was «so mid» after the long nap. What does «mid» mean?

- **1.** Very tired and ill — score 6
- **2.** Brilliant and exciting — score 6
- **3.** Halfway through a match — score 6
- **4.** So-so or boring — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 56, line 18: ««No cap» is young slang for no lie, «sus» means suspicious, and «mid» means boring or so-so.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «mean» (+3); the same doer «mid» (+3); the same property (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/56-sleep-for-growing-and-for-playing-well/t11/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1}

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Identify the quantity of nightly sleep recommended for a child between six and twelve years of age.

- **1.** Approximately three to four hours — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Approximately five to six hours — no support
- **3.** Approximately nine to twelve hours — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Approximately fifteen to eighteen hours — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/56-sleep-for-growing-and-for-playing-well/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2}

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the relationship between sleep and athletic training?

- **1.** Sleep is a period in which training is undone — score 8
- **2.** Sleep is the period in which the benefits of training are consolidated — **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **3.** Sleep is a substitute for all training — **← Mova's choice** · score 9
- **4.** Sleep is of no consequence to athletic performance — score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 9, against 8 for the next best. Its support: lesson 56, line 1: «Sleep isn't a break from training, it is the part of training where the body does its building: muscles repair the tiny strains of the day, the brain stores th…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «sleep» (+2); the same circumstance (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). The right option, 2, scored 7. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/56-sleep-for-growing-and-for-playing-well/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3}

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It is given that a participant requires ten hours of sleep and must rise at half past five. Determine the appropriate hour of retiring.

- **1.** Half past seven in the evening — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Half past nine in the evening — no support
- **3.** Midnight precisely — no support
- **4.** Half past eleven in the evening — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/56-sleep-for-growing-and-for-playing-well/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4}

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Ascertain the principal reason for which caffeinated beverages are inadvisable in the evening.

- **1.** Caffeine has no effect after one minute — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Caffeine replaces the need for sleep — no support
- **3.** Caffeine induces immediate drowsiness — no support
- **4.** Caffeine suppresses sleepiness for several hours — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/56-sleep-for-growing-and-for-playing-well/e4/)

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