Plurals that make no sense: mice, sheep and geese, sentence 7
Fishes is used, especially by scientists, for different kinds of fish: "the fishes of the Atlantic".
Who acts: scientists · What happens: use · To what, where: Fishes
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 (scientists), 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 | Fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 used | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 used | aux:pass |
| 3 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 scientists | punct |
| 5 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 7 scientists | advmod |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 scientists | case |
| 7 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 used | obl:agent |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 kinds | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 kinds | case |
| 10 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 kinds | amod |
| 11 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 used | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 fish | case |
| 13 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kinds | nmod |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 fishes | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 fishes | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fishes | det |
| 17 | fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 kinds | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Atlantic | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Atlantic | det |
| 20 | Atlantic | Atlantic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 fishes | nmod |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 fishes | punct |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 used | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present · passive | scientists | Fishes | for different kinds of fish | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent subject=Theme for kind=Eventuality |
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:7.
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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