Plurals that make no sense: mice, sheep and geese, sentence 1

That is why "two hice" sounds silly: house took the ordinary -s long ago, while mouse kept its old Old English plural; it is history, not logic.

Who acts: That, two hice, house, mouse, hice · What happens: be, sound, take, keep · To what, where: ordinary, old Old English plural, history

This is a sentence of the lesson «Plurals that make no sense: mice, sheep and geese» 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 (That, two hice, house, mouse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 why	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 why	cop
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 hice	punct
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hice	nummod
6	hice	hice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sounds	nsubj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 hice	punct
8	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 why	advcl:relcl
9	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sounds	xcomp
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 sounds	punct
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	nsubj
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sounds	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ordinary	det
14	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 took	obj
15	-s	-s	PUNCT	_	14 ordinary	punct
16	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 ago	advmod
17	ago	ago	ADV	_	12 took	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 kept	punct
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	21 kept	mark
20	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 kept	nsubj
21	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 took	advcl
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 plural	nmod:poss
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 plural	amod
24	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 plural	amod
25	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 plural	compound
26	plural	plural	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 kept	obj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 history	punct
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 history	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 history	cop
30	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sounds	parataxis
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 logic	punct
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 logic	advmod
33	logic	logic	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 history	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 why	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	That		why property	tree rules
2	sound	present	two hice		silly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	take	past	house	the ordinary	ago property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ordinary=Theme
4	keep	past	mouse	house's old Old English plural		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plural=Theme
5	is a	present	hice	history and logic		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, 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:010-plurals-mice-sheep-and-geese.lesson:1.

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.

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