Sign language, sentence 4
Babies who see signing even "babble" with their hands, which shows that language lives in the brain, not just in the mouth.
Who acts: Babies, you, language · What happens: see, sign, babble, show, live · To what, where: brain · 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 (Babies, you, language), 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 | Babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 babble | root |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Babies | acl:relcl |
| 4 | signing | sign | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Ger | 3 see | obj |
| 5 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 babble | advmod |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 babble | punct |
| 7 | babble | babble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 babble | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 hands | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hands | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 babble | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shows | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 shows | nsubj |
| 14 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 babble | acl:relcl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 lives | mark |
| 16 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lives | nsubj |
| 17 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 shows | ccomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 brain | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 brain | det |
| 20 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lives | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 mouth | punct |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 mouth | advmod |
| 23 | just | just | ADV | _ | 26 mouth | advmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 mouth | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 mouth | det |
| 26 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 brain | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 babble | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | Babies | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | sign | gerund | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | babble in a quote | imperative | you not said here | with Babies's hands | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with hand=Theme | ||||
| 4 | show | present | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | live | present | language | the brain and the mouth | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in brain=Location |
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:4.
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): no change. 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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