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title: Ella thinks rights won always stay. If people stop protecting rights… — Rights won step by step: freedom, vote… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ella thinks rights won always stay. If people stop protecting rights, what can happen? Test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 69 «Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and children's rights» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Test 11 · ★★★ · Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and children's rig…

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Ella thinks rights won always stay. If people stop protecting rights, what can happen?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Ella, rights, people · **What happens:** think, win, stay, stop, protect, happen · **To what, where:** rights · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 69 «Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and children's rights» of the history course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/69-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ella thinks rights won always stay.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:69-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights:t11:1
# text = Ella thinks rights won always stay.
1	Ella	Ella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Ella |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **win** | past | rights |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stay** | infinitive | rights *not said here* |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn exist-47.1 «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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*Sentence 2:* If people stop protecting rights, what can happen?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:69-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights:t11:2
# text = If people stop protecting rights, what can happen?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	protecting	protect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **protect** | gerund | people *not said here* | rights |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **happen** | can |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Rights get stronger alone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:69-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights:t11:o1:1
# text = Rights get stronger alone
1	Rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
4	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | Rights |  |  |  |  | alone, strong *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Rights turn into money

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:69-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights:t11:o2:1
# text = Rights turn into money
1	Rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present | Rights |  |  | money |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into money=Trajectory |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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They can be lost, as in Germany in 1933

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:69-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights:t11:o3:1
# text = They can be lost, as in Germany in 1933
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1933	1933	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | can · passive |  | They |  | 1933 |  | as Germany | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing, rights last for ever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:69-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights:t11:o4:1
# text = Nothing, rights last for ever
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	last	last	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **last** | present | Nothing rights |  |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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