--- title: An adult who asks a child to keep a secret about touching is doing s… — My body belongs to me · tree and pragmatics description: An adult who asks a child to keep a secret about touching is doing something wrong, and it is never the child's fault. Who acts: adult, touching. 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 clau --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/57-my-body-belongs-to-me/19/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [My body belongs to me](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/57-my-body-belongs-to-me/) / 19 # My body belongs to me, sentence 19 An adult who asks a child to keep a secret about touching is doing something wrong, and it is never the child's fault. **Who acts:** adult, touching · **What happens:** ask, keep, do, not be · **To what, where:** child, secret, something, fault 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, touching), 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:19 # text = An adult who asks a child to keep a secret about touching is doing something wrong, and it is never the child's fault. # 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 14 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 doing do VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 15 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 14 obj _ _ 16 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 21 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 's 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 fault fault NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | 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 | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme | | 3 | **do** | present · progressive | a adult | something | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | | 4 | **not** **is a** | present | touching | the child's fault | | | | | tree rules | 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:057-my-body-belongs-to-me.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): 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/). - ← previous: [My body belongs to me, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/57-my-body-belongs-to-me/18/) - next →: [My body belongs to me, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/57-my-body-belongs-to-me/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/57-my-body-belongs-to-me/)