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title: A girl in Austin is teased about her freckles; she remembers that he… — Your body and how you look · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: girl, freckles, teacher, teasing. A sentence of the lesson «Your body and how you look» of the everyday course of Mova's pr
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# Your body and how you look, sentence 3

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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.

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**Who acts:** girl, freckles, teacher, teasing · **What happens:** tease, remember, be, tell, keep, happen · **To what, where:** girl, part, teacher · **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 (girl, freckles, teacher, teasing), 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:3
# text = 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.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Austin	Austin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	teased	tease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	freckles	freckle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	remembers	remember	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	freckles	freckle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	just	just	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	ccomp	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj
28	happening	happen	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	xcomp	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	teasing	tease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **tease** | present · passive |  | a girl in Austin |  |  |  | about girl's freckles | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **remember** | present | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | girl's freckles | part |  |  |  | of girl | tree rules |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | girl *not said here* |  | girl's teacher |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient |
| 5 | **keep** | present | teacher |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **happen** | gerund | teacher *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **stop** | present | the teasing |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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:3`.

**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, 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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