Plurals that make no sense: mice, sheep and geese, sentence 4

Plurals never need an apostrophe: a shop sign "Tomatoe's 50p" is wrong; it should be "Tomatoes 50p".

Who acts: Plurals, apostrophe · What happens: not need, be · To what, where: apostrophe, Tomatoes

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 (Plurals, apostrophe), 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	Plurals	plural	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 need	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 need	advmod
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 apostrophe	det
5	apostrophe	apostrophe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 need	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 sign	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 sign	det
8	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sign	compound
9	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 apostrophe	appos
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 p	punct
11	Tomatoe	Tomatoe	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 p	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Tomatoe	case
13	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 p	nummod
14	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sign	appos
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 p	punct
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 wrong	cop
17	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 apostrophe	appos
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 Tomatoes	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 Tomatoes	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 Tomatoes	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 Tomatoes	cop
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 Tomatoes	punct
23	Tomatoes	tomato	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 apostrophe	appos
24	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 p	nummod
25	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Tomatoes	list
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 Tomatoes	punct
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 need	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not need	present	Plurals	a apostrophe		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot apostrophe=Theme
2	is	present			wrong property	tree rules
3	is a in a quote	should	apostrophe	Tomatoes		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:4.

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. 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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