Sign language, sentence 2
There is not one sign language for the whole world: Britain has BSL, America has ASL, Ukraine has Ukrainian Sign Language, and even countries that share English have very different sign languages.
Who acts: one sign language, Britain, America, Ukraine, countries · What happens: not be, have, share · To what, where: BSL, ASL, Ukrainian Sign Language, English, different sign languages
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 (one sign language, Britain, America, Ukraine), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 is | advmod |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 language | nummod |
| 5 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 language | compound |
| 6 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 world | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 world | det |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 world | amod |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 language | nmod |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 has | punct |
| 12 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 has | nsubj |
| 13 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 is | parataxis |
| 14 | BSL | BSL | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 has | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 has | punct |
| 16 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 has | nsubj |
| 17 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 has | conj |
| 18 | ASL | asl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 has | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 has | punct |
| 20 | Ukraine | Ukraine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 has | nsubj |
| 21 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 has | conj |
| 22 | Ukrainian | ukrainian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Language | amod |
| 23 | Sign | sign | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Language | compound |
| 24 | Language | language | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 has | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 have | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 have | cc |
| 27 | even | even | ADV | _ | 28 countries | advmod |
| 28 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 have | nsubj |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 share | nsubj |
| 30 | share | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 countries | acl:relcl |
| 31 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 share | obj |
| 32 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 is | parataxis |
| 33 | very | very | ADV | _ | 34 different | advmod |
| 34 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 languages | amod |
| 35 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 languages | compound |
| 36 | languages | language | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 have | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not be | present | one sign language for the whole world | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | present | Britain | BSL | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bsl=Patient | ||||
| 3 | have | present | America | ASL | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent asl=Patient | ||||
| 4 | have | present | Ukraine | Ukrainian Sign Language | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Patient | ||||
| 5 | share | present | countries | English | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | have | present | countries | different sign languages | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Patient |
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: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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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.
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