--- title: A girl in California skipped meals because a video said she should l… — Your body and how you look · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: girl, video. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, video), 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:12 # text = 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. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 California California PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 skipped skip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 meals meal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 because because SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 video video NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ _ 14 thinner thin ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 xcomp _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 18 dizzy dizzy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 tests test NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 conj _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 doctor doctor NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **skip** | past | a girl in California | meals | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a video | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **look** | should | video | | | | | thin *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **feel** | past | video | | | school | | dizzy *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | could | video *not said here* | | | tests | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **take** | past · passive | video *not said here* | | | | | to a doctor *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: to doctor=Result | 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. **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:12`. **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): no change. **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/). - ← previous: [Your body and how you look, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/88-liking-how-you-look/11/) - next →: [Your body and how you look, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/88-liking-how-you-look/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/88-liking-how-you-look/)