Sign language, sentence 13

In BSL a simple "hello" is a wave; when talking to a Deaf person, face them, speak clearly if they lip-read, and don't shout.

Who acts: simple hello, languages · What happens: be, talk, face, speak, read, not shout · To what, where: wave, BSL, languages · 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 (simple hello, languages), 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 BSL	case
2	BSL	BSL	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 wave	obl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hello	det
4	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hello	amod
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 hello	punct
6	hello	hello	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wave	nsubj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 hello	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 wave	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 wave	det
10	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 face	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 talking	advmod
13	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 face	advcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 person	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 person	det
16	Deaf	deaf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 person	amod
17	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 talking	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 talking	punct
19	face	face	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 wave	parataxis
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 face	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 speak	punct
22	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 face	conj
23	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	22 speak	advmod
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 read	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 read	nsubj
26	lip	lip	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 read	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 read	punct
28	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 speak	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 shout	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 shout	cc
31	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	33 shout	aux
32	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 shout	advmod
33	shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	22 speak	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 wave	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=imp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a simple hello	a wave	BSL		tree rules
2	talk	gerund				to a Deaf person	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to person=Co-Agent
3	face	infinitive		languages = language			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Destination
4	speak speech: other	infinitive				clearly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	read a condition, not said to happen	present	languages = language				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not shout speech: express	infinitive · do-support					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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.

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