Plurals that make no sense: mice, sheep and geese, sentence 6
Sheep, deer and moose are the same in singular and plural; fish is usually the same too (three fish).
Who acts: Sheep, fish · What happens: be · To what, where: singular
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 (Sheep, fish), 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 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 same | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 deer | punct |
| 3 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sheep | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 moose | cc |
| 5 | moose | moose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 deer | conj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 same | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 same | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 singular | case |
| 10 | singular | singular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 same | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 plural | cc |
| 12 | plural | plural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 singular | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 same | punct |
| 14 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 same | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 same | cop |
| 16 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 18 same | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 same | det |
| 18 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 same | parataxis |
| 19 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 same | advmod |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 fish | punct |
| 21 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 fish | nummod |
| 22 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 same | parataxis |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 fish | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 same | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Sheep and deer and moose | singular | same property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | fish | same, usually property | 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:6.
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): 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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