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title: Rights can be lost: Germany was a democracy after 1919, but Hitler's… — Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and chil… · tree and pragmatics
description: Rights can be lost: Germany was a democracy after 1919, but Hitler's party took power in 1933 and ended it. Who acts: Germany, party. 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 t
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# Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and children's rights, sentence 26

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Rights can be lost: Germany was a democracy after 1919, but Hitler's party took power in 1933 and ended it.

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**Who acts:** Germany, party · **What happens:** lose, be, take, end · **To what, where:** Rights, democracy, power, 1933

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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 (Germany, party), 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:26
# text = Rights can be lost: Germany was a democracy after 1919, but Hitler's party took power in 1933 and ended it.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
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	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	democracy	democracy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	1919	1919	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	Hitler	Hitler	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis
18	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	1933	1933	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **lose** | can · passive |  | Rights |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Germany | a democracy |  |  | after 1919 |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | past | Hitler's party | power |  | 1933 |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent power=Value in 1933=Location |
| 4 | **end** | past | Hitler's party *not said here* | power |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality |

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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:26`.

**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): 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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