--- title: An adult told a boy in England that their touching games had to stay… — My body belongs to me · tree and pragmatics description: An adult told a boy in England that their touching games had to stay a secret; the boy felt confused and kept quiet for a long time, but when he finally told his teacher, it was stopped. Who acts: adult, touching games, boy. 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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 games, boy), 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:5 # text = An adult told a boy in England that their touching games had to stay a secret; the boy felt confused and kept quiet for a long time, but when he finally told his teacher, it was stopped. # 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 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 iobj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 touching touching NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 games game NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 secret secret NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 21 confused confused ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 24 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 30 but but CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 31 when when SCONJ WRB _ 34 mark _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 finally finally ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 advcl _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 iobj _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 39 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux:pass _ _ 40 stopped stop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 conj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | a adult | | a boy | England | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **have** | past | Surprises's touching games | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **stay** | to-infinitive | Surprises's touching games *not said here* | a secret | | | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme secret=Location | | 4 | **feel** | past | the boy | | | | | confused *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **keep** | past | the boy *not said here* | | | | time | quiet *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | adult | | adult's teacher | | | finally *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | | 7 | **stop** | past · passive | | teacher | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | 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:5`. **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/). - ← previous: [My body belongs to me, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/57-my-body-belongs-to-me/4/) - next →: [My body belongs to me, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/57-my-body-belongs-to-me/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/57-my-body-belongs-to-me/)