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title: A girl in Australia said no loudly when an older child touched her i… — My body belongs to me · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Australia said no loudly when an older child touched her in a way she did not like, and told her mum straight away; the adults made sure it never happened again. Who acts: girl, older child, child, adults. A sentence of the lesson «My body belongs to me» of the everyday course of Mova's pr
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# My body belongs to me, sentence 6

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A girl in Australia said no loudly when an older child touched her in a way she did not like, and told her mum straight away; the adults made sure it never happened again.

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**Who acts:** girl, older child, child, adults, it · **What happens:** say, touch, not like, tell, make, not happen · **To what, where:** girl, way, mum · **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 (girl, older child, child, adults), 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:6
# text = A girl in Australia said no loudly when an older child touched her in a way she did not like, and told her mum straight away; the adults made sure it never happened again.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	no	no	INTJ	UH	_	5	obj	_	_
7	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	12	mark	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	iobj	_	_
26	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	away	away	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
31	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=23:conj
32	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:ccomp
36	again	again	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a girl in Australia |  |  |  |  | loudly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic |
| 2 | **touch** | past | a older child | girl |  | a way |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **not** **like** | past · do-support | child | a way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot way=Theme |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | a girl in Australia *not said here* |  | child's mum |  |  | away *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient |
| 5 | **make** | past | the adults |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **not** **happen** | past | it |  |  |  | again |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:6`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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