--- title: There is not one sign language for the whole world: Britain has BSL,… — Sign language · tree and pragmatics description: There is not one sign language for the whole world: Britain has BSL, America has ASL, Ukraine has Ukrainian Sign Language, and even countries that share English have very different sign languages. Who acts: one sign language, Britain, America, Ukraine. A sentence of the lesson «Sign language» of the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/32-sign-language/2/) [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/) / 2 # Sign language, sentence 2 There is not one sign language for the whole world: Britain has BSL, America has ASL, Ukraine has Ukrainian Sign Language, and even countries that share English have very different sign languages. **Who acts:** one sign language, Britain, America, Ukraine, countries · **What happens:** not be, have, share · **To what, where:** BSL, ASL, Ukrainian Sign Language, English, different sign languages 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 (one sign language, Britain, America, Ukraine), 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:2 # text = There is not one sign language for the whole world: Britain has BSL, America has ASL, Ukraine has Ukrainian Sign Language, and even countries that share English have very different sign languages. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 2 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 5 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 14 BSL BSL PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 16 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 18 ASL asl PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 Ukraine Ukraine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 22 Ukrainian ukrainian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 23 Sign sign PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 24 Language language PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 25 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 27 even even ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 29 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 share share VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 31 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 32 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 33 very very ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 35 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 languages language NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **be** | present | one sign language for the whole world | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **have** | present | Britain | BSL | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bsl=Patient | | 3 | **have** | present | America | ASL | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent asl=Patient | | 4 | **have** | present | Ukraine | Ukrainian Sign Language | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Patient | | 5 | **share** | present | countries | English | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **have** | present | countries | different sign languages | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Patient | 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:2`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/32-sign-language/1/) - next →: [Sign language, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/32-sign-language/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/32-sign-language/)