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title: Every person looks different: tall or short, curly or straight hair,… — Your body and how you look · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: person, single right way. A sentence of the lesson «Your body and how you look» of the everyday course of Mova's pri
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# Your body and how you look, sentence 0

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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.

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**Who acts:** person, single right way · **What happens:** look, be

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Your body and how you look» 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 (person, single right way), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:088-liking-how-you-look.lesson:0
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 088-liking-how-you-look.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	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	curly	curly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	straight	straight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	freckles	freckle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	appos	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	braces	brace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	29	expl	_	_
29	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
30	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	33	det	_	_
31	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	acl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | every person |  |  |  |  | different, tall *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **be** | present | no single right way |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | to-infinitive | no single right way *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:088-liking-how-you-look.lesson:0`.

**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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