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title: If one adult does not listen, you keep telling other trusted adults… — My body belongs to me · tree and pragmatics
description: If one adult does not listen, you keep telling other trusted adults until someone helps. Who acts: one adult, you, someone. 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 17

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If one adult does not listen, you keep telling other trusted adults until someone helps.

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**Who acts:** one adult, you, someone · **What happens:** not listen, keep, tell, trust, help · **To what, where:** other trusted adults · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (one adult, you, someone), 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:17
# text = If one adult does not listen, you keep telling other trusted adults until someone helps.
# 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): no change
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	xcomp	_	_
11	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	16	nsubj	_	_
16	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **not** **listen** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | one adult |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **keep** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | you *not said here* |  | other trusted adults |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 4 | **trust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **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:057-my-body-belongs-to-me.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): 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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