My body belongs to me, sentence 4
If the first adult you tell does not listen, keep telling other trusted adults until someone helps; good adults want to know, so that they can keep you safe.
Who acts: you, first adult, someone, good adults, Surprises · What happens: tell, not listen, keep, trust, help, want · To what, where: first adult, other trusted adults, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «My body belongs to me» 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 (you, first adult, someone, good adults), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 listen | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 adult | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 adult | amod |
| 4 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 listen | nsubj |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 tell | nsubj |
| 6 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 adult | acl:relcl |
| 7 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 listen | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 listen | advmod |
| 9 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 keep | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 listen | punct |
| 11 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 keep | xcomp |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 adults | amod |
| 14 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 adults | amod |
| 15 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 telling | obj |
| 16 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 18 helps | mark |
| 17 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 helps | nsubj |
| 18 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 telling | advcl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 want | punct |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 adults | amod |
| 21 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 want | nsubj |
| 22 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 keep | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 know | mark |
| 24 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 want | xcomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 keep | punct |
| 26 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 30 keep | mark |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 so | fixed |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 keep | nsubj |
| 29 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 keep | aux |
| 30 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 want | advcl |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 keep | obj |
| 32 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 keep | xcomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | you | the first adult not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | not listen a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | the first adult | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | keep | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | gerund | you not said here | other trusted adults | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | trust | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | help | present | someone | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | want | present | good adults | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | good adults not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 9 | keep | can | Surprises = surprise | you | safe property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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, 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:057-my-body-belongs-to-me.lesson:4.
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.
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