Sign language, sentence 6
People who are part of Deaf culture and use sign language often write Deaf with a capital D.
Who acts: People · What happens: be, use, write · To what, where: part, sign language, Deaf
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 (People), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 write | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 part | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 part | cop |
| 4 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 People | acl:relcl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 culture | case |
| 6 | Deaf | deaf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 culture | amod |
| 7 | culture | culture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 part | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 use | cc |
| 9 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 part | conj |
| 10 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 language | compound |
| 11 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 use | obj |
| 12 | often | often | ADV | _ | 13 write | advmod |
| 13 | write | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Deaf | deaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 write | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 capital | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 capital | det |
| 17 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 write | obl |
| 18 | D. | D. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 capital | appos |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | People | part | of Deaf culture | tree rules | |||
| 2 | use | present | People not said here | sign language | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Patient | ||||
| 3 | write | present | People | Deaf | with a capital; often property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deaf=Theme |
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:6.
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 ×2, R7-rel-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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