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title: If anyone touches you in a way that feels wrong, it is never your fa… — Speaking up, saying no and growing up · tree and pragmatics
description: If anyone touches you in a way that feels wrong, it is never your fault; tell a trusted adult and keep telling until someone helps. Who acts: anyone, way, someone. A sentence of the lesson «Speaking up, saying no and growing up» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre
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# Speaking up, saying no and growing up, sentence 19

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If anyone touches you in a way that feels wrong, it is never your fault; tell a trusted adult and keep telling until someone helps.

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**Who acts:** anyone, way, someone · **What happens:** touch, feel, not be, tell, keep, help · **To what, where:** you, way, fault, trusted adult · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Speaking up, saying no and growing up» 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 (anyone, way, someone), 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:19
# text = If anyone touches you in a way that feels wrong, it is never your fault; tell a trusted adult and keep telling until someone helps.
# 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): no change
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
3	touches	touch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	trusted	trust	ADJ	JJ	_	21	amod	_	_
21	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
24	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	xcomp	_	_
25	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	27	nsubj	_	_
27	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **touch** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | anyone | you |  | a way |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **feel** | present | a way |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | present | way | your fault |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  | a trusted adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 5 | **keep** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **help** | present | someone |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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:215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up.lesson:19`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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