Plurals that make no sense: mice, sheep and geese, sentence 14

Human comes from Latin "humanus" through French and is not the English word "man", so its plural is humans.

Who acts: Human, plural · What happens: come, not be, be · To what, where: humanus, Latin, English word, humans

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 (Human, 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	Human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 Latin	case
4	Latin	Latin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 comes	obl
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 humanus	punct
6	humanus	humanus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	obl
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 humanus	punct
8	through	through	ADP	_	9 French	case
9	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 comes	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 word	cc
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 word	cop
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 word	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 word	det
14	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 word	amod
15	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	conj
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 man	punct
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 word	appos
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 man	punct
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 plural	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	24 humans	advmod
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 plural	nmod:poss
22	plural	plural	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 humans	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 humans	cop
24	humans	human	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 word	parataxis
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 comes	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	present	Human	humanus	Latin	through French	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from latin=Initial_Location through french=Destination
2	not is a	present	Human not said here	the English word			tree rules
3	is a	present	humanus's plural	humans			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:14.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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