Sign language, sentence 10
In 2022 a new British law said that BSL is a real language of England, Scotland and Wales.
Who acts: new British law, BSL · What happens: say, be · To what, where: 2022, real language · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sign language» of the language 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 (new British law, BSL), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 2022 | case |
| 2 | 2022 | 2022 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 said | obl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 law | det |
| 4 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 law | amod |
| 5 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 law | amod |
| 6 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 language | mark |
| 9 | BSL | BSL | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 language | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 language | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 language | det |
| 12 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 language | amod |
| 13 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 England | case |
| 15 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 language | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Scotland | punct |
| 17 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 England | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Wales | cc |
| 19 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 England | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
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 | past | a new British law | 2022 | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in 2022=Manner | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | BSL | a real language | of England and Scotland and Wales | tree rules |
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, 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:language:032-sign-language.lesson:10.
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): R1-cc-next ×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.
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