Sign language, sentence 3
Faces matter as much as hands: raised eyebrows can turn a sentence into a question, so a signer's expressions are grammar, not rudeness.
Who acts: Faces, raised eyebrows, expressions · What happens: matter, raise, turn, be · To what, where: sentence, question, grammar
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 (Faces, raised eyebrows, expressions), 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 | Faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 matter | nsubj |
| 2 | matter | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 matter | amod |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 hands | case |
| 6 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 much | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 matter | punct |
| 8 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 eyebrows | amod |
| 9 | eyebrows | eyebrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 turn | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 turn | aux |
| 11 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 matter | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 sentence | det |
| 13 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turn | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 question | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 question | det |
| 16 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turn | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 grammar | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 grammar | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 signer | det |
| 20 | signer | signer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 expressions | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 signer | case |
| 22 | expressions | expression | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 grammar | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 grammar | cop |
| 24 | grammar | grammar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 matter | appos |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 rudeness | punct |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 rudeness | advmod |
| 27 | rudeness | rudeness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 grammar | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 matter | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | matter | present | Faces | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | raise | participle | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | turn | can | raised eyebrows | a sentence | a question | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent sentence=Theme into question=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | is a | present | a signer's expressions | grammar and rudeness | 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:3.
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. 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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