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title: Disabled people campaigned for access; the US passed the Americans w… — Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and chil… · tree and pragmatics
description: Disabled people campaigned for access; the US passed the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990, and the UN agreed a convention on disabled people's rights in 2006. Who acts: Disabled people, US, UN. A sentence of the lesson «Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and children's rights» of the his
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# Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and children's rights, sentence 24

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Disabled people campaigned for access; the US passed the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990, and the UN agreed a convention on disabled people's rights in 2006.

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**Who acts:** Disabled people, US, UN · **What happens:** campaign, pass, agree · **To what, where:** Americans Act, 1990, convention, rights

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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 (Disabled people, US, UN), 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:24
# text = Disabled people campaigned for access; the US passed the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990, and the UN agreed a convention on disabled people's rights in 2006.
# 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): R5-strong ×6, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Disabled	disabled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	campaigned	campaign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:parataxis
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	access	access	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:det
11	Americans	American	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obj
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Disabilities	disability	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
14	Act	Act	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	1990	1990	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	UN	UN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	convention	convention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
25	disabled	disabled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	2006	2006	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9: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 | **campaign** | past | Disabled people |  |  |  |  | for access | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | past | the US | the Americans Act |  | 1990 |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent act=Theme in 1990=Destination |
| 3 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | the UN | a convention |  | disabled people's rights |  | in 2006 | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent convention=Topic |

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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:24`.

**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 ×6, R6-punct-agree ×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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