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title: An adult who asks a child to keep a secret about touching is breakin… — My body belongs to me · tree and pragmatics
description: An adult who asks a child to keep a secret about touching is breaking a safety rule. Who acts: adult. A sentence of the lesson «My body belongs to me» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# My body belongs to me, sentence 14

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An adult who asks a child to keep a secret about touching is breaking a safety rule.

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**Who acts:** adult · **What happens:** ask, keep, break · **To what, where:** child, secret, safety rule

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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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:057-my-body-belongs-to-me.lesson:14
# text = An adult who asks a child to keep a secret about touching is breaking a safety rule.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 057-my-body-belongs-to-me.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
12	touching	touching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	breaking	break	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | a adult |  | a child |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent child=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a adult *not said here* | a secret  touching |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme |
| 3 | **break** | present · progressive | a adult | a safety rule |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rule=Patient |

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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:057-my-body-belongs-to-me.lesson:14`.

**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): 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.

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

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