Plurals that make no sense: mice, sheep and geese, sentence 16
Trousers, scissors, glasses and pliers are plural-only nouns: one object with two matching parts, counted with "a pair of".
Who acts: Trousers · What happens: be, match, count · To what, where: plural nouns, one object
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 (Trousers), 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 | Trousers | trousers | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 nouns | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 scissors | punct |
| 3 | scissors | scissors | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Trousers | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 glasses | punct |
| 5 | glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Trousers | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 pliers | cc |
| 7 | pliers | plier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Trousers | conj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 nouns | cop |
| 9 | plural | plural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 nouns | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 plural | punct |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 nouns | advmod |
| 12 | nouns | noun | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 object | punct |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 object | nummod |
| 15 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nouns | appos |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 parts | case |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 parts | nummod |
| 18 | matching | match | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 parts | amod |
| 19 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 object | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 counted | punct |
| 21 | counted | count | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 object | acl:relcl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 pair | case |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 pair | punct |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 pair | det |
| 25 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 counted | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 pair | fixed |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 pair | punct |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 nouns | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Trousers and scissors and glasses and pliers | plural nouns | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | match | gerund | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | count | participle | one object with two matching parts not said here | with a pair | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
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:16.
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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