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title: Sign language interpreters translate live between spoken language an… — Sign language · tree and pragmatics
description: Sign language interpreters translate live between spoken language and sign language, so Deaf people can follow things like the news. Who acts: Sign language interpreters, Deaf people. A sentence of the lesson «Sign language» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an
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# Sign language, sentence 14

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Sign language interpreters translate live between spoken language and sign language, so Deaf people can follow things like the news.

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**Who acts:** Sign language interpreters, Deaf people · **What happens:** translate, speak, follow · **To what, where:** things · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 language interpreters, Deaf people), 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:14
# text = Sign language interpreters translate live between spoken language and sign language, so Deaf people can follow things like the news.
# 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 ×1
1	Sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	interpreters	interpreter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	translate	translate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	live	live	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	between	between	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:compound
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
14	Deaf	deaf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
18	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **translate** | present | Sign language interpreters |  |  |  |  | between spoken language and sign and language; live *property* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **follow** | can | Deaf people | things |  |  |  | like the news | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |

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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.

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**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:14`.

**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 ×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/).

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