--- title: In BSL a simple "hello" is a wave; when talking to a Deaf person, fa… — Sign language · tree and pragmatics description: In BSL a simple "hello" is a wave; when talking to a Deaf person, face them, speak clearly if they lip-read, and don't shout. Who acts: simple hello, languages. 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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 (simple hello, 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:13 # text = In BSL a simple "hello" is a wave; when talking to a Deaf person, face them, speak clearly if they lip-read, and don't shout. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 BSL BSL PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 simple simple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 hello hello NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 wave wave NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 12 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 13 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 Deaf deaf ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 17 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 19 face face VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 speak speak VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:parataxis 23 clearly clearly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 if if SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 lip lip NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ _ 28 read read VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=22:cc 31 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VBP:Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 shout shout VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a simple hello | a wave | | BSL | | | tree rules | | 2 | **talk** | gerund | | | | | | to a Deaf person | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to person=Co-Agent | | 3 | **face** | infinitive | | languages *= language* | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Destination | | 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | | | | | | clearly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **read** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | languages *= language* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **shout** *speech: express* | infinitive · do-support | | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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:13`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/32-sign-language/11/) - next →: [Sign language, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/32-sign-language/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/32-sign-language/)