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title: BSL fingerspelling uses two hands, ASL fingerspelling uses one; fing… — Sign language · tree and pragmatics
description: BSL fingerspelling uses two hands, ASL fingerspelling uses one; fingerspelling is for names and words without a sign. Who acts: BSL fingerspelling, fingerspelling. A sentence of the lesson «Sign language» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Sign language, sentence 8

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BSL fingerspelling uses two hands, ASL fingerspelling uses one; fingerspelling is for names and words without a sign.

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**Who acts:** BSL fingerspelling, fingerspelling · **What happens:** use, be · **To what, where:** two hands, one

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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 (BSL fingerspelling, fingerspelling), 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:8
# text = BSL fingerspelling uses two hands, ASL fingerspelling uses one; fingerspelling is for names and words without a sign.
# 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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	BSL	BSL	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	fingerspelling	fingerspelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	ASL	asl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	fingerspelling	fingerspelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:compound
9	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	obj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	fingerspelling	fingerspelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:compound
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	without	without	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## 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 | **use** | present | BSL fingerspelling | two hands |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 2 | **use** | present | fingerspelling | one |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | fingerspelling |  |  |  |  | for names and words; without a sign | tree rules |

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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:8`.

**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 ×3, R8-pos-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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