--- title: Your body and how you look — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Your body and how you look», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Every person looks different: tall or short, curly or straight hair, freckles, glasses, braces, different skin colours and body shapes; there --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/88-liking-how-you-look/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / Your body and how you look # Your body and how you look Lesson 88 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 15 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/88-liking-how-you-look/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/88-liking-how-you-look/0/) — Every person looks different: tall or short, curly or straight hair, freckles, glasses, braces, different skin colours and body shapes; there is no single right way to look. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/88-liking-how-you-look/1/) — Your worth is who you are and what you do, like being kind, brave, funny or a good friend, not how you look. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/88-liking-how-you-look/2/) — Pictures in adverts and online are often edited, so real people do not look like them. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/88-liking-how-you-look/3/) — A girl in Austin is teased about her freckles; she remembers that her freckles are just part of her, tells her teacher when it keeps happening, and the teasing stops. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/88-liking-how-you-look/4/) — Everybody looks different, and that is normal. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/88-liking-how-you-look/5/) — Your worth does not depend on your looks. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/88-liking-how-you-look/6/) — Someone being unkind about your looks says more about them than about you. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/88-liking-how-you-look/7/) — If someone keeps being unkind about how you look, tell a trusted adult. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/88-liking-how-you-look/9/) — Your body is for doing things, like running, laughing, hugging and learning, not only for looking at. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/88-liking-how-you-look/10/) — Saying kind things about yourself, and to yourself, helps you feel better. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/88-liking-how-you-look/11/) — We should never make fun of how other people look either. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/88-liking-how-you-look/12/) — A girl in California skipped meals because a video said she should look thinner; she felt dizzy at school, could not think in tests and was taken to a doctor. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/88-liking-how-you-look/13/) — A boy in Leeds was teased about his ears and said nothing to anyone; for months he hid in the library at lunch until a teacher noticed and helped. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/88-liking-how-you-look/14/) — Many photos and videos online are edited or filtered, so they show bodies that do not really look like that. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/88-liking-how-you-look/15/) — Not eating enough to change how you look can make you ill, tired and unable to concentrate. - ← previous: [Eyes, ears and moving your body](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/87-eyes-ears-and-moving/) - next →: [Handling anger](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/89-handling-anger/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)