Plurals that make no sense: mice, sheep and geese, sentence 12
Dice was first the plural of "die"; today many people also say "a dice" for one.
Who acts: Dice, many people · What happens: be, say · To what, where: plural, dice · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Dice, many people), 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 | Dice | dice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plural | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 plural | cop |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 plural | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 plural | det |
| 5 | plural | plural | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 die | case |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 die | punct |
| 8 | die | die | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plural | nmod |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 die | punct |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 say | punct |
| 11 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 say | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 people | amod |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 say | nsubj |
| 14 | also | also | ADV | _ | 15 say | advmod |
| 15 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 plural | parataxis |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 dice | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 dice | det |
| 18 | dice | dice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 say | obj |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 dice | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 one | case |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 say | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 plural | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Dice | the plural | of die; first property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | many people | a dice | today | for one | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dice=Topic |
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:12.
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): 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.
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