--- title: BSL, Auslan (Australian Sign Language) and New Zealand Sign Language… — Sign language · tree and pragmatics description: BSL, Auslan (Australian Sign Language) and New Zealand Sign Language belong to one family, so their signers understand each other quite well. Who acts: BSL, signers. A sentence of the lesson «Sign language» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/32-sign-language/11/) [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/) / 11 # Sign language, sentence 11 BSL, Auslan (Australian Sign Language) and New Zealand Sign Language belong to one family, so their signers understand each other quite well. **Who acts:** BSL, signers · **What happens:** belong, understand · **To what, where:** each 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 (BSL, signers), 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:11 # text = BSL, Auslan (Australian Sign Language) and New Zealand Sign Language belong to one family, so their signers understand each other quite well. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×4 1 BSL BSL PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 Auslan Auslan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 4 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 5 Australian Australian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 Sign sign PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 7 Language language PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 appos _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 flat _ _ 11 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 12 Sign sign PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 13 Language language PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 14 belong belong VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 signers signer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 understand understand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 23 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 22 obj _ _ 24 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 fixed _ _ 25 quite quite ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 22 advmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **belong** | present | BSL and Auslan and Zealand Sign Language | | | | | to one family | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **understand** | present | languages's signers | each | | | | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus | 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:11`. **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, R8-pos-agree ×4. **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, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/32-sign-language/10/) - next →: [Sign language, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/32-sign-language/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/32-sign-language/)