My body belongs to me, sentence 5
An adult told a boy in England that their touching games had to stay a secret; the boy felt confused and kept quiet for a long time, but when he finally told his teacher, it was stopped.
Who acts: adult, touching games, boy · What happens: tell, have, stay, feel, keep, stop · To what, where: boy, England, secret, teacher · 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 (adult, touching games, boy), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 adult | det |
| 2 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 boy | det |
| 5 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | iobj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 England | case |
| 7 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 had | mark |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 games | nmod:poss |
| 10 | touching | touching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 games | compound |
| 11 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 stay | mark |
| 14 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 had | xcomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 secret | det |
| 16 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stay | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 felt | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 boy | det |
| 19 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 felt | nsubj |
| 20 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | parataxis |
| 21 | confused | confused | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 felt | xcomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 kept | cc |
| 23 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 felt | conj |
| 24 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 kept | xcomp |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 time | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 time | det |
| 27 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 time | amod |
| 28 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 kept | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 stopped | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 stopped | cc |
| 31 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 34 told | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 told | nsubj |
| 33 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 34 told | advmod |
| 34 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 stopped | advcl |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 36 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 told | iobj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 told | punct |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 stopped | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 stopped | aux:pass |
| 40 | stopped | stop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 felt | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | 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 | past | a adult | a boy | England | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | have | past | Surprises's touching games | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stay | to-infinitive | Surprises's touching games not said here | a secret | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme secret=Location | ||||
| 4 | feel | past | the boy | confused property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | keep | past | the boy not said here | time | quiet property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | past | adult | adult's teacher | finally property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | |||
| 7 | stop | past · passive | teacher | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
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:5.
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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