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title: influencer says skip meals to get skinny, gonna try — Your body and how you look · tree and pragmatics
description: influencer says skip meals to get skinny, gonna try Test 13 · ★ of lesson 88 «Your body and how you look» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 13 · ★ · Your body and how you look

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influencer says skip meals to get skinny, gonna try

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** influencer, skinny · **What happens:** say, get, try · **To what, where:** skip meals, skinny · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 88 «Your body and how you look» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/88-liking-how-you-look/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:88-liking-how-you-look:t13:1
# text = influencer says skip meals to get skinny, gonna try
1	influencer	influencer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	skip	skip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	meals	meal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
7	skinny	skinny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	gonna	gonna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	conj	_	_
10	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | influencer | skip meals |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive |  | skinny |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **try** | infinitive | skinny *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Yes, it's a safe trick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:88-liking-how-you-look:t13:o1:1
# text = Yes, it's a safe trick
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | it | a safe trick |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, skipping meals makes you ill and tired, talk to an adult

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:88-liking-how-you-look:t13:o2:1
# text = No, skipping meals makes you ill and tired, talk to an adult
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	skipping	skip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	csubj	_	_
4	meals	meal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	talk	talk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **skip** | gerund |  | meals |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | present | skipping | you |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |
| 3 | **talk** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to a adult | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to adult=Co-Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Only skip breakfast and lunch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:88-liking-how-you-look:t13:o3:1
# text = Only skip breakfast and lunch
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	skip	skip	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **skip** | imperative | you *not said here* | breakfast and lunch |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, if you drink lots of fizzy drinks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:88-liking-how-you-look:t13:o4:1
# text = Yes, if you drink lots of fizzy drinks
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	drink	drink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	fizzy	fizzy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	drinks	drink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | present | you | lots of fizzy drinks |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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