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title: You can say no to touches you do not want, even from people you know… — My body belongs to me · tree and pragmatics
description: You can say no to touches you do not want, even from people you know and love. Who acts: You. 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 8

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You can say no to touches you do not want, even from people you know and love.

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** say, not want, know, love · **To what, where:** no, touches, people · **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 (You), 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:8
# text = You can say no to touches you do not want, even from people you know and love.
# 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	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	touches	touch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	even	even	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | can | You | no | touches |  |  | from people | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent no=Topic to touch=Recipient |
| 2 | **not** **want** | present · do-support | you | touches *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot touch=Theme |
| 3 | **know** | present | you | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus |
| 4 | **love** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:8`.

**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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