My body belongs to me, sentence 6
A girl in Australia said no loudly when an older child touched her in a way she did not like, and told her mum straight away; the adults made sure it never happened again.
Who acts: girl, older child, child, adults, it · What happens: say, touch, not like, tell, make, not happen · To what, where: girl, way, mum · 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 (girl, older child, child, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Australia | case |
| 4 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | no | no | INTJ | _ | 5 said | obj |
| 7 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 touched | mark |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 child | det |
| 10 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 child | amod |
| 11 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 touched | nsubj |
| 12 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | advcl |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 touched | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 way | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 way | det |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 touched | obl |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 like | nsubj |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 like | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 like | advmod |
| 20 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 way | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 told | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 told | cc |
| 23 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 mum | nmod:poss |
| 25 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 told | iobj |
| 26 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 27 away | advmod |
| 27 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 told | advmod |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 made | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 adults | det |
| 30 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 made | nsubj |
| 31 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 32 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 made | xcomp |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 happened | nsubj |
| 34 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 35 happened | advmod |
| 35 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 sure | ccomp |
| 36 | again | again | ADV | _ | 35 happened | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | a girl in Australia | loudly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic | ||||
| 2 | touch | past | a older child | girl | a way | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-Theme | |||
| 3 | not like | past · do-support | child | a way not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot way=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | a girl in Australia not said here | child's mum | away property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient | |||
| 5 | make | past | the adults | sure property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | not happen | past | it | again | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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: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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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.
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