--- title: Children have a right to be heard on things that affect them, and gr… — Rights, duties and community dilemmas · tree and pragmatics description: Children have a right to be heard on things that affect them, and groups often decide by voting, but the majority must still protect the minority. Who acts: Children, things, groups, majority. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Children, things, groups, majority), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:049-rights-duties-and-community.lesson:2 # text = Children have a right to be heard on things that affect them, and groups often decide by voting, but the majority must still protect the minority. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 049-rights-duties-and-community.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 right right NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 6 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 affect affect VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 16 often often ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 decide decide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 18 by by ADP IN _ 19 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:case 19 voting vote VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 majority majority NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 24 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 still still ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 protect protect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 minority minority NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Children | a right | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient | | 2 | **hear** | to-infinitive · passive | Children *not said here* | a right *not said here* | | things | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus» | | 3 | **affect** | present | things | rights *= right* | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | | 4 | **decide** | present | groups | | | | | often *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **vote** | gerund | groups *not said here* | | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **protect** | must | the majority | the minority | | | still | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minority=Beneficiary | 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. **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:religion-ethics:049-rights-duties-and-community.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Rights, duties and community dilemmas, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/49-rights-duties-and-community/1/) - next →: [Rights, duties and community dilemmas, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/49-rights-duties-and-community/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/49-rights-duties-and-community/)