[{"role": "user", "content": "I'm trying to learn Italian and I'd like to describe a scene where someone is resting, so could you please translate the sentence 'Tom was sleeping' into Italian for me?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The translation of 'Tom was sleeping' in Italian is 'Tom stava dormendo.' This is the correct way to express that someone was in the act of sleeping at a particular time in the past."}]