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title: People who are part of Deaf culture and use sign language often writ… — Sign language · tree and pragmatics
description: People who are part of Deaf culture and use sign language often write Deaf with a capital D. Who acts: People. 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 clause.
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# Sign language, sentence 6

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People who are part of Deaf culture and use sign language often write Deaf with a capital D.

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**Who acts:** People · **What happens:** be, use, write · **To what, where:** part, sign language, Deaf

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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 (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:6
# text = People who are part of Deaf culture and use sign language often write Deaf with a capital D.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Deaf	deaf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	culture	culture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	often	often	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	write	write	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
14	Deaf	deaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	D.	D.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | People | part |  |  |  | of Deaf culture | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | present | People *not said here* | sign language |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Patient |
| 3 | **write** | present | People | Deaf |  |  |  | with a capital; often *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deaf=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:6`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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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