Sign language, sentence 8
BSL fingerspelling uses two hands, ASL fingerspelling uses one; fingerspelling is for names and words without a sign.
Who acts: BSL fingerspelling, fingerspelling · What happens: use, be · To what, where: two hands, one
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 (BSL fingerspelling, fingerspelling), 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 | BSL | BSL | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 fingerspelling | compound |
| 2 | fingerspelling | fingerspelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 uses | nsubj |
| 3 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 hands | nummod |
| 5 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 uses | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 uses | punct |
| 7 | ASL | asl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 uses | compound |
| 8 | fingerspelling | fingerspelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 uses | nsubj |
| 9 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 uses | conj |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 uses | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 names | punct |
| 12 | fingerspelling | fingerspelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 names | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 names | cop |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 names | case |
| 15 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 uses | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 words | cc |
| 17 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 names | conj |
| 18 | without | without | ADP | _ | 20 sign | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 sign | det |
| 20 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 names | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 uses | punct |
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 | use | present | BSL fingerspelling | two hands | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 2 | use | present | fingerspelling | one | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | fingerspelling | for names and words; without a sign | 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:8.
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 ×3, R8-pos-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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