--- title: British Sign Language (BSL) is a full language with its own grammar,… — Sign language · tree and pragmatics description: British Sign Language (BSL) is a full language with its own grammar, different from English; it uses hand shapes, movements, the face and the body. Who acts: British Sign Language, mouth. 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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 (British Sign Language, mouth), 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:5 # text = British Sign Language (BSL) is a full language with its own grammar, different from English; it uses hand shapes, movements, the face and the body. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 British British 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 10 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 5 punct _ _ 5 BSL BSL PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 appos _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 5 punct _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 grammar grammar NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:parataxis 17 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 22 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 shapes shape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 movements movement NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:nmod 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 10 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 | British Sign Language | a full language | | | | with mouth's own grammar | tree rules | | 2 | **use** | present | mouth | hand shapes and movements and the face and the body | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=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:5`. **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, R7-rel-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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/32-sign-language/4/) - next →: [Sign language, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/32-sign-language/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/32-sign-language/)