--- title: The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, article 12, says child… — Rights, duties and community dilemmas · tree and pragmatics description: The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, article 12, says children have a right to be heard on things that affect them. Who acts: UN Convention, children, things. 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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 (UN Convention, children, things), 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:8 # text = The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, article 12, says children have a right to be heard on things that affect them. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 UN UN PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Convention convention PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Rights Right PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Child child PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 article article NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 12 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 flat _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 14 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 right right NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 20 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:parataxis 22 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 affect affect VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **have** | present | children | a right | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient | | 3 | **hear** | to-infinitive · passive | children *not said here* | a right *not said here* | | things | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus» | | 4 | **affect** | present | things | rights *= right* | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | 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:8`. **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, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/49-rights-duties-and-community/7/) - next →: [Rights, duties and community dilemmas, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/49-rights-duties-and-community/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/49-rights-duties-and-community/)