Plurals that make no sense: mice, sheep and geese, sentence 5

An irregular plural is a plural not made by adding -s or -es; old vowel-change plurals include mice, lice, geese, feet, teeth, men and women.

Who acts: irregular plural, old change plurals · What happens: be, not make, add, include · To what, where: plural, -s, mice

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 (irregular plural, old change plurals), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 plural	det
2	irregular	irregular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 plural	amod
3	plural	plural	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plural	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 plural	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 plural	det
6	plural	plural	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 made	advmod
8	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 plural	acl
9	by	by	SCONJ	_	10 adding	mark
10	adding	add	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 made	advcl
11	-s	-	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 adding	obj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 es	cc
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 or	punct
14	es	e	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 -s	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 include	punct
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 plurals	amod
17	vowel	vowel	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 change	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 vowel	punct
19	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 plurals	compound
20	plurals	plural	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 include	nsubj
21	include	include	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 plural	parataxis
22	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 include	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lice	punct
24	lice	louse	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 mice	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 geese	punct
26	geese	geese	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 mice	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 feet	punct
28	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 mice	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 teeth	punct
30	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 mice	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 men	punct
32	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 mice	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 women	cc
34	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 mice	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 plural	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	a irregular plural	a plural	tree rules
2	not make	participle		a plural not said here	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	add speech: assert	gerund		-s or es	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent -=Patient
4	include	present	old change plurals	mice and lice and geese and feet and teeth and men and women	vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme

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:5.

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): no change. 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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