--- title: A girl in Auckland was touched in a way that felt wrong by someone s… — Speaking up, saying no and growing up · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Auckland was touched in a way that felt wrong by someone she knew, and she kept it secret for a long time; when she finally told her mum, the adults stopped it, and she wished she had told sooner. Who acts: way, girl, adults, adult. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, girl, adults, adult), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up.lesson:17 # text = A girl in Auckland was touched in a way that felt wrong by someone she knew, and she kept it secret for a long time; when she finally told her mum, the adults stopped it, and she wished she had told sooner. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up.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 ×3, 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 Auckland Auckland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 touched touch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 13 by by ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 11 obl _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nsubj 22 secret secret ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:obl 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 28 when when SCONJ WRB _ 31 mark _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 finally finally ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 32 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 37 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 parataxis _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 41 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 wished wish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:parataxis 43 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 44 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 45 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 42 ccomp _ _ 46 sooner soon ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 45 advmod _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **touch** | past · passive | | a girl in Auckland | | a way | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme | | 2 | **feel** | past | a way | | | | | by someone; wrong *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **know** | past | girl | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **keep** | past | girl | way | | | time | secret *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | girl | | girl's mum | | | finally *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient | | 6 | **stop** | past | the adults | way | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality | | 7 | **wish** | past | adult | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 8 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | adult | | | | | soon *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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](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:215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up.lesson:17`. **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 ×3, 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. 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