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title: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was agreed in 1948, after… — The King, the courts and the rules above the rules · tree and pragmatics
description: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was agreed in 1948, after the Second World War; it lists rights every person should have, such as a fair trial and going to school. Who acts: Declaration, person. A sentence of the lesson «The King, the courts and the rules above the rules» of the politics c
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# The King, the courts and the rules above the rules, sentence 13

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was agreed in 1948, after the Second World War; it lists rights every person should have, such as a fair trial and going to school.

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**Who acts:** Declaration, person · **What happens:** agree, list, have, go · **To what, where:** Universal Declaration, 1948, rights, fair trial, school

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The King, the courts and the rules above the rules» of the politics 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 (Declaration, person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:007-the-king-the-courts-and-the-rules-above-the-rules.lesson:13
# text = The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was agreed in 1948, after the Second World War; it lists rights every person should have, such as a fair trial and going to school.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 007-the-king-the-courts-and-the-rules-above-the-rules.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, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Universal	universal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Declaration	declaration	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Rights	Right	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	agreed	agree	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1948	1948	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	Second	Second	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	amod	_	_
15	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	lists	list	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
20	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	30	case	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	trial	trial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	conj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past · passive |  | the Universal Declaration of Human Rights |  | 1948 | after the Second World War |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **list** | present | Declaration | rights |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | should | every person | a fair trial |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trial=Patient |
| 4 | **go** | gerund | every person *not said here* |  |  | school |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial\_Location |

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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:politics:007-the-king-the-courts-and-the-rules-above-the-rules.lesson:13`.

**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, 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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