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title: Rights are things every person should have just for being human; chi… — Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness · tree and pragmatics
description: Rights are things every person should have just for being human; children have special rights under a United Nations agreement. Who acts: Rights, person, children. A sentence of the lesson «Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness, sentence 19

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Rights are things every person should have just for being human; children have special rights under a United Nations agreement.

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**Who acts:** Rights, person, children · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** things, special rights, Nations agreement

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness» of the adult life 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 (Rights, person, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:033-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness.lesson:19
# text = Rights are things every person should have just for being human; children have special rights under a United Nations agreement.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 033-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
10	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
11	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	under	under	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	United	United	PROPN	NNP	_	20	compound	_	_
20	Nations	Nations	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	compound	_	_
21	agreement	agreement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **is a** | present | Rights | things |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | should | every person | things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | human *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | present | children | special rights |  | a Nations agreement |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient |

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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:adult-life:033-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness.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): R5-strong ×1, 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/).

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