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title: Sign language lets a family talk with a deaf member, and anyone can… — A sibling with a disability or illness, a siblin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sign language lets a family talk with a deaf member, and anyone can learn some. Who acts: Sign language, anyone. A sentence of the lesson «A sibling with a disability or illness, a sibling who left home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# A sibling with a disability or illness, a sibling who left home, sentence 32

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Sign language lets a family talk with a deaf member, and anyone can learn some.

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**Who acts:** Sign language, anyone · **What happens:** let, talk, learn · **To what, where:** some

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This is a sentence of the lesson «A sibling with a disability or illness, a sibling who left home» of the everyday 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 (Sign language, anyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:506-a-sibling-with-a-disability-or-illness-or-who-left-home.lesson:32
# text = Sign language lets a family talk with a deaf member, and anyone can learn some.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 506-a-sibling-with-a-disability-or-illness-or-who-left-home.lesson
# annotation = 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Sign	sign	NOUN	NN	_	2	compound	_	_
2	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det
5	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	deaf	deaf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:obj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | present | Sign language |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **talk** | infinitive | Sign language *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a deaf member | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with member=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **learn** | can | anyone | some |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Topic |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:everyday:506-a-sibling-with-a-disability-or-illness-or-who-left-home.lesson:32`.

**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 ×2, 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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