Plurals that make no sense: mice, sheep and geese, sentence 13
Mongoose comes from Marathi, a language of India, so its plural is mongooses.
Who acts: Mongoose, plural · What happens: come, be · To what, where: Marathi, mongooses
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 (Mongoose, plural), 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 | Mongoose | mongoose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 comes | nsubj |
| 2 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Marathi | case |
| 4 | Marathi | Marathi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 comes | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 language | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 language | det |
| 7 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Marathi | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 India | case |
| 9 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 language | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 mongooses | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 mongooses | advmod |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 plural | nmod:poss |
| 13 | plural | plural | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mongooses | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 mongooses | cop |
| 15 | mongooses | mongoose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 comes | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Mongoose | Marathi | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from marathi=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | mongoose's plural | mongooses | 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:13.
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 ×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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