--- title: Ukrainian Sign Language is a separate language, so a Deaf boy from U… — Sign language · tree and pragmatics description: Ukrainian Sign Language is a separate language, so a Deaf boy from Ukraine moving to London needs to learn BSL, just as hearing children learn English. Who acts: Ukrainian Sign Language, Deaf boy, hearing children. A sentence of the lesson «Sign language» of the language course of Mova's primary sch --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/32-sign-language/15/) [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/) / 15 # Sign language, sentence 15 Ukrainian Sign Language is a separate language, so a Deaf boy from Ukraine moving to London needs to learn BSL, just as hearing children learn English. **Who acts:** Ukrainian Sign Language, Deaf boy, hearing children · **What happens:** be, move, need, learn · **To what, where:** separate language, London, BSL, English 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 (Ukrainian Sign Language, Deaf boy, hearing children), 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:15 # text = Ukrainian Sign Language is a separate language, so a Deaf boy from Ukraine moving to London needs to learn BSL, just as hearing children learn English. # 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 ×2 1 Ukrainian ukrainian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 Sign sign PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 Language language PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 separate separate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 Deaf deaf ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Ukraine Ukraine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 acl _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 18 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 BSL BSL PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 23 just just ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 24 as as SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 25 hearing hear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 learn learn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 28 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18: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 a** | present | Ukrainian Sign Language | a separate language | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **move** | gerund | a Deaf boy from Ukraine *not said here* | | London | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to london=Result | | 3 | **need** | present | a Deaf boy from Ukraine | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **learn** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a Deaf boy from Ukraine *not said here* | BSL | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bsl=Topic | | 5 | **learn** | present | hearing children | English | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent english=Topic | 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:15`. **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 ×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: [Sign language, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/32-sign-language/14/) - next →: [Ukrainian compared with English, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/33-ukrainian-compared-with-english/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/32-sign-language/)