Sign language, sentence 15
Ukrainian Sign Language is a separate language, so a Deaf boy from Ukraine moving to London needs to learn BSL, just as hearing children learn English.
Who acts: Ukrainian Sign Language, Deaf boy, hearing children · What happens: be, move, need, learn · To what, where: separate language, London, BSL, English
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 (Ukrainian Sign Language, Deaf boy, hearing children), 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 | Ukrainian | ukrainian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Language | amod |
| 2 | Sign | sign | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Language | compound |
| 3 | Language | language | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 language | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 language | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 language | det |
| 6 | separate | separate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 language | amod |
| 7 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 boy | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 boy | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 boy | det |
| 11 | Deaf | deaf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 boy | amod |
| 12 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 needs | nsubj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 Ukraine | case |
| 14 | Ukraine | Ukraine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 boy | nmod |
| 15 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 boy | acl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 London | case |
| 17 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 moving | obl |
| 18 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 language | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 learn | mark |
| 20 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 needs | xcomp |
| 21 | BSL | BSL | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 learn | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 needs | punct |
| 23 | just | just | ADV | _ | 25 hearing | advmod |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 hearing | mark |
| 25 | hearing | hear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 children | amod |
| 26 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 learn | nsubj |
| 27 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 needs | advcl |
| 28 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 learn | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 language | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Ukrainian Sign Language | a separate language | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | move | gerund | a Deaf boy from Ukraine not said here | London | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to london=Result | ||||
| 3 | need | present | a Deaf boy from Ukraine | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | learn not said to happen | to-infinitive | a Deaf boy from Ukraine not said here | BSL | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bsl=Topic | ||||
| 5 | learn | present | hearing children | English | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent english=Topic |
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:15.
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, 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.
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