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title: Other people's bodies belong to them too, so we ask before hugging a… — My body belongs to me · tree and pragmatics
description: Other people's bodies belong to them too, so we ask before hugging and stop when someone says no. Who acts: bodies, we, 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 18

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Other people's bodies belong to them too, so we ask before hugging and stop when someone says no.

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**Who acts:** bodies, we, someone · **What happens:** belong, ask, hug, stop, say · **To what, where:** people, no. · **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 (bodies, we, 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:18
# text = Other people's bodies belong to them too, so we ask before hugging and stop when someone says no.
# 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	Other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	belong	belong	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	hugging	hug	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
18	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	19	nsubj	_	_
19	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
20	no.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
```

## 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 | **belong** | present | Other people's bodies |  | people |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hug** | gerund | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **stop** | infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | someone | no. |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no.=Topic |

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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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**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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