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title: Saying kind things about yourself, and to yourself, helps you feel b… — Your body and how you look · tree and pragmatics
description: Saying kind things about yourself, and to yourself, helps you feel better. Who acts: Saying, you. A sentence of the lesson «Your body and how you look» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Your body and how you look, sentence 10

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Saying kind things about yourself, and to yourself, helps you feel better.

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**Who acts:** Saying, you · **What happens:** say, help, feel · **To what, where:** kind things, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Saying, you), 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:10
# text = Saying kind things about yourself, and to yourself, helps you feel better.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	csubj	_	_
2	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | kind things |  |  |  | about yourself | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |
| 2 | **help** | present | Saying | you |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 3 | **feel** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: 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:10`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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