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title: Eleanor Roosevelt chaired the group that wrote the Universal Declara… — Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and chil… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eleanor Roosevelt chaired the group that wrote the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948, with people from many countries such as René Cassin of France and Peng Chun Chang of China. Who acts: Eleanor, group. A sentence of the lesson «Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and child
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# Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and children's rights, sentence 21

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Eleanor Roosevelt chaired the group that wrote the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948, with people from many countries such as René Cassin of France and Peng Chun Chang of China.

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**Who acts:** Eleanor, group · **What happens:** chair, write, adopt · **To what, where:** group, Universal Declaration, 1948

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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 (Eleanor, group), 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:21
# text = Eleanor Roosevelt chaired the group that wrote the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948, with people from many countries such as René Cassin of France and Peng Chun Chang of China.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Eleanor	Eleanor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Roosevelt	Roosevelt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	chaired	chair	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Universal	universal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Declaration	declaration	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Rights	Right	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	adopted	adopt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	1948	1948	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	27	case	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	René	René	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Cassin	Cassin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	Peng	Peng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
32	Chun	Chun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	_
33	Chang	Chang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **chair** | past | Eleanor | the group |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **write** | past | the group | the Universal Declaration of Human Rights |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent declaration=Theme |
| 3 | **adopt** | participle |  | the Universal Declaration of Human Rights *not said here* |  | 1948 |  | with people from many countries such René Cassin of France and Peng | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:21`.

**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): R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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