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title: Someone being unkind about your looks says more about them than abou… — Your body and how you look · tree and pragmatics
description: Someone being unkind about your looks says more about them than about you. Who acts: Someone. 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 6

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Someone being unkind about your looks says more about them than about you.

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**Who acts:** Someone · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** more · **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 (Someone), 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:6
# text = Someone being unkind about your looks says more about them than about you.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nsubj
2	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	cop	_	_
3	unkind	unkind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	csubj	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	looks	look	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:nmod
7	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obj
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	about	about	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about your looks; unkind *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Someone | more |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic |

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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:6`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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