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title: Comments about someone's body or weight can make them uncomfortable,… — Compliments and respecting differences · tree and pragmatics
description: Comments about someone's body or weight can make them uncomfortable, even when meant kindly. Who acts: Comments. A sentence of the lesson «Compliments and respecting differences» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Compliments and respecting differences, sentence 3

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Comments about someone's body or weight can make them uncomfortable, even when meant kindly.

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**Who acts:** Comments · **What happens:** make, mean · **To what, where:** body

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Compliments and respecting differences» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Comments), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:226-compliments-and-respecting-differences.lesson:3
# text = Comments about someone's body or weight can make them uncomfortable, even when meant kindly.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 226-compliments-and-respecting-differences.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1
1	Comments	comment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
2	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	even	even	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	15	mark	_	_
15	meant	mean	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advcl
16	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | can | Comments about someone's body or weight | body |  |  |  | uncomfortable *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |
| 2 | **mean** | participle | Comments about someone's body or weight *not said here* |  |  |  |  | kindly *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:226-compliments-and-respecting-differences.lesson:3`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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