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title: Every body grows at its own speed, so it is never fair to tease anyo… — Being kind to yourself, money, screens and fair… · tree and pragmatics
description: Every body grows at its own speed, so it is never fair to tease anyone for being taller, shorter or changing sooner or later than others. Who acts: body. A sentence of the lesson «Being kind to yourself, money, screens and fair play» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc
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# Being kind to yourself, money, screens and fair play, sentence 7

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Every body grows at its own speed, so it is never fair to tease anyone for being taller, shorter or changing sooner or later than others.

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**Who acts:** body · **What happens:** grow, not be, tease, be, change · **To what, where:** own speed, anyone

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Being kind to yourself, money, screens and fair play» 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 (body), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:293-being-kind-to-yourself-money-screens-and-fair-play.lesson:7
# text = Every body grows at its own speed, so it is never fair to tease anyone for being taller, shorter or changing sooner or later than others.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 293-being-kind-to-yourself-money-screens-and-fair-play.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	expl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	tease	tease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	csubj	_	_
16	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	15	obj	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
18	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	cop	_	_
19	taller	tall	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	advcl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	shorter	short	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	changing	change	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	conj	_	_
24	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJR:Degree=Cmp
27	than	than	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **grow** | present | every body |  |  | body's own speed |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at speed=Location |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **tease** | to-infinitive |  | anyone |  |  |  |  | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | tall *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **change** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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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**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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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