Sign language, sentence 5
British Sign Language (BSL) is a full language with its own grammar, different from English; it uses hand shapes, movements, the face and the body.
Who acts: British Sign Language, mouth · What happens: be, use · To what, where: full language, hand shapes
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 (British Sign Language, mouth), 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 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Language | amod |
| 2 | Sign | sign | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Language | compound |
| 3 | Language | language | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 language | nsubj |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 BSL | punct |
| 5 | BSL | BSL | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Language | appos |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 BSL | punct |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 language | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 language | det |
| 9 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 language | amod |
| 10 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 grammar | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 grammar | nmod:poss |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 grammar | amod |
| 14 | grammar | grammar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 language | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 different | punct |
| 16 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 grammar | amod |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 English | case |
| 18 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 different | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 uses | punct |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 uses | nsubj |
| 21 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 different | conj |
| 22 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shapes | compound |
| 23 | shapes | shape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 uses | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 movements | punct |
| 25 | movements | movement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 shapes | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 face | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 face | det |
| 28 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shapes | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 body | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 body | det |
| 31 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 face | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 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 | British Sign Language | a full language | with mouth's own grammar | tree rules | |||
| 2 | use | present | mouth | hand shapes and movements and the face and the body | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=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:5.
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, R7-rel-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.
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