--- title: At a club Lily watches Sam, a Deaf boy, sign to his mum so fast her… — Sign language · tree and pragmatics description: At a club Lily watches Sam, a Deaf boy, sign to his mum so fast her eyes can't keep up; it isn't English spelled on the hands, it's British Sign Language, a different language altogether. Who acts: Lily, Sam, eyes, club. A sentence of the lesson «Sign language» of the language course of Mova's prima --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/32-sign-language/1/) [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/) / 1 # Sign language, sentence 1 At a club Lily watches Sam, a Deaf boy, sign to his mum so fast her eyes can't keep up; it isn't English spelled on the hands, it's British Sign Language, a different language altogether. **Who acts:** Lily, Sam, eyes, club · **What happens:** watch, sign, not keep up, not be, spell, be · **To what, where:** Sam, club, mum, hands, British Sign Language 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 (Lily, Sam, eyes, club), 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:1 # text = At a club Lily watches Sam, a Deaf boy, sign to his mum so fast her eyes can't keep up; it isn't English spelled on the hands, it's British Sign Language, a different language altogether. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 club club NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 watches watch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 Deaf deaf ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 10 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 12 sign sign VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 12 advmod _ _ 18 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 20 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 23 up up ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 29 spelled spell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 advcl _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 35 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 36 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 37 Sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 Language language PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:parataxis|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:nmod 43 altogether altogether ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **watch** | present | Lily | Sam | | a club | | | tree rules | | 2 | **sign** | infinitive | Sam *not said here* | | Lily's mum | | | fast *property* | vn instr\_communication-37.4.1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to mum=Recipient | | 3 | **not** **keep up** | can | Sam's eyes | | | | | | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **is** | present | club | | | | | english *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **spell** | participle | club *not said here* | | | the hands | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on hand=Destination | | 6 | **is a** | present | club | British Sign Language | | | | | 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](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:1`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Sign language, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/32-sign-language/0/) - next →: [Sign language, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/32-sign-language/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/32-sign-language/)