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title: Your American cousin fingerspells with one hand and says you're doin… — Sign language · tree and pragmatics
description: Your American cousin fingerspells with one hand and says you're doing it wrong with two. Who's right? Test 7 of lesson 32 «Sign language» of the language course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 7 · Sign language

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Your American cousin fingerspells with one hand and says you're doing it wrong with two. Who's right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** American cousin, you · **What happens:** fingerspell, say, do, be · **To what, where:** cousin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 of lesson 32 «Sign language» of the language course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/language/32-sign-language/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your American cousin fingerspells with one hand and says you're doing it wrong with two.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:32-sign-language:t7:1
# text = Your American cousin fingerspells with one hand and says you're doing it wrong with two.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fingerspells	fingerspell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	ccomp	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fingerspell** | present | Your American cousin |  |  |  |  | with one hand | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Your American cousin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **do** | present · progressive | you | cousin |  |  |  | with two | tree rules |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Who's right?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:32-sign-language:t7:2
# text = Who's right?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Only your cousin, because one hand is the world rule

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:32-sign-language:t7:o1:1
# text = Only your cousin, because one hand is the world rule
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	7	case	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | your cousin because one hand | the world rule |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Both: ASL uses one hand and BSL uses two

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:32-sign-language:t7:o2:1
# text = Both: ASL uses one hand and BSL uses two
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	ASL	asl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	BSL	BSL	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | both ASL | one hand |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 2 | **use** | present | BSL | two |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Neither, you must use your feet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:32-sign-language:t7:o3:1
# text = Neither, you must use your feet
1	Neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | must | you | your feet |  |  |  | neither *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Only you

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:32-sign-language:t7:o4:1
# text = Only you
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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