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title: Babies who see signing even "babble" with their hands, which shows t… — Sign language · tree and pragmatics
description: Babies who see signing even "babble" with their hands, which shows that language lives in the brain, not just in the mouth. Who acts: Babies, you, language. A sentence of the lesson «Sign language» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Sign language, sentence 4

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Babies who see signing even "babble" with their hands, which shows that language lives in the brain, not just in the mouth.

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**Who acts:** Babies, you, language · **What happens:** see, sign, babble, show, live · **To what, where:** brain · **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 (Babies, you, language), 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:4
# text = Babies who see signing even "babble" with their hands, which shows that language lives in the brain, not just in the mouth.
# 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): no change
1	Babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	root	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	signing	sign	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Ger	3	obj	_	_
5	even	even	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	babble	babble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
23	just	just	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **see** | present | Babies |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **sign** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **babble** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Babies's hands | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with hand=Theme |
| 4 | **show** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **live** | present | language |  |  | the brain and the mouth |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in brain=Location |

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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:4`.

**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): no change. **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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