--- title: Language is a code that a whole group of people shares: sounds (or h… — What language is: sounds, words and rules everyo… · tree and pragmatics description: Language is a code that a whole group of people shares: sounds (or hand signs, or letters) that stand for meanings, plus rules for putting them together. Who acts: Language, whole group, sounds, code. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Language, whole group, sounds, code), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:001-what-language-is-sounds-words-and-rules.lesson:0 # text = Language is a code that a whole group of people shares: sounds (or hand signs, or letters) that stand for meanings, plus rules for putting them together. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 001-what-language-is-sounds-words-and-rules.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 code code NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 obj _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 11 shares share VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 13 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj 14 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 signs sign NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:appos 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 21 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 22 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 stand stand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:acl:relcl 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 meanings meaning NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 plus plus CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:nsubj 29 for for SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 30 putting put VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 acl _ _ 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 together together ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | Language | a code | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **share** | present | a whole group of people | a code | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **stand** | present | sounds or hand signs or letters plus rules | | | | | for meanings | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for meaning=Attribute | | 4 | **put** | gerund | a code *not said here* | rules *= rule* | | | | together *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal | 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](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:language:001-what-language-is-sounds-words-and-rules.lesson:0`. **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 ×3, 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism/21/) - next →: [What language is: sounds, words and ru…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/1-what-language-is-sounds-words-and-rules/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/1-what-language-is-sounds-words-and-rules/)