--- title: Sign languages are full, real languages made with the hands, face an… — Sign language · tree and pragmatics description: Sign languages are full, real languages made with the hands, face and body, with their own words and their own grammar, as rich as any spoken language. Who acts: Sign languages, languages. A sentence of the lesson «Sign language» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/32-sign-language/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / [Sign language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/32-sign-language/) / 0 # Sign language, sentence 0 Sign languages are full, real languages made with the hands, face and body, with their own words and their own grammar, as rich as any spoken language. **Who acts:** Sign languages, languages · **What happens:** be, make, speak, word · **To what, where:** real languages · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Sign languages, languages), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:032-sign-language.lesson:0 # text = Sign languages are full, real languages made with the hands, face and body, with their own words and their own grammar, as rich as any spoken language. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 032-sign-language.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 ×2 1 Sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 languages language NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 languages language NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 grammar grammar NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 as as ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 28 as as ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 31 det _ _ 30 spoken speak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 amod _ _ 31 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 . . 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** | present | Sign languages | | | | | real languages *obl*; full *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | participle | | real languages *not said here* | | | | with the hands and face and body and languages's own words and languages's own grammar | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **be** | | Sign languages *not said here* | | | | | as any spoken language | tree rules | | 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | participle | | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **word** | | languages *= language* | | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:032-sign-language.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 ×2. **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: [How babies learn to talk, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/31-how-babies-learn-to-talk/14/) - next →: [Sign language, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/32-sign-language/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/32-sign-language/)