--- title: American Sign Language (ASL) and BSL are different languages; ASL is… — Sign language · tree and pragmatics description: American Sign Language (ASL) and BSL are different languages; ASL is related to French Sign Language. Who acts: ASL. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/32-sign-language/7/) [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/) / 7 # Sign language, sentence 7 American Sign Language (ASL) and BSL are different languages; ASL is related to French Sign Language. **Who acts:** ASL · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** different languages, French Sign Language 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 (ASL), 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:7 # text = American Sign Language (ASL) and BSL are different languages; ASL is related to French Sign Language. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×4 1 American American 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 NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 5 punct _ _ 5 ASL asl PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 appos _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 5 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 8 BSL BSL PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:compound 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 languages language NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 ASL asl PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 related related ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 Sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 Language language PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 20 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | | different languages | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | ASL | | French Sign Language | | | related *property* | tree rules | 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:7`. **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, R8-pos-agree ×4. **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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/32-sign-language/6/) - next →: [Sign language, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/32-sign-language/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/32-sign-language/)