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title: Ella asks: once rights are won, they stay, right? — Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and chil… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ella asks: once rights are won, they stay, right? Who acts: Ella, rights. A sentence of the lesson «Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and children's rights» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and children's rights, sentence 2

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Ella asks: once rights are won, they stay, right?

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**Who acts:** Ella, rights · **What happens:** ask, win, stay · **To what, where:** rights · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and children's rights» of the history 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 (Ella, rights), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:069-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights.lesson:2
# text = Ella asks: once rights are won, they stay, right?
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 069-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights.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	Ella	Ella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
4	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	won	win	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: none
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Ella |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **win** | present · passive |  | rights |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **stay** | present | rights *= right* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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**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:history:069-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights.lesson:2`.

**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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