Nouns: the names of things, people, places and ideas, sentence 16
Some nouns end in s but take a singular verb, like "the news is" and "maths is"; some are always plural, like trousers, scissors and glasses, because they have two parts.
Who acts: nouns, some, maths · What happens: end, take, be, have · To what, where: s, singular verb, maths, two parts
This is a sentence of the lesson «Nouns: the names of things, people, places and ideas» 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 (nouns, some, maths), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 nouns | det |
| 2 | nouns | noun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 end | nsubj |
| 3 | end | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 s | case |
| 5 | s | s | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 end | obl |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 take | cc |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 end | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 verb | det |
| 9 | singular | singular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 verb | amod |
| 10 | verb | verb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 news | punct |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 news | case |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 news | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 news | det |
| 15 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 is | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 maths | cop |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 is | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 maths | cc |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 maths | punct |
| 20 | maths | math | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 is | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 plural | cop |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 is | punct |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 plural | punct |
| 24 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 plural | nsubj |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 plural | cop |
| 26 | always | always | ADV | _ | 27 plural | advmod |
| 27 | plural | plural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 end | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 trousers | punct |
| 29 | like | like | ADP | _ | 30 trousers | case |
| 30 | trousers | trousers | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 plural | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 scissors | punct |
| 32 | scissors | scissors | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 trousers | conj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 glasses | cc |
| 34 | glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 trousers | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 have | punct |
| 36 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 38 have | mark |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 have | nsubj |
| 38 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 plural | advcl |
| 39 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 parts | nummod |
| 40 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 have | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 end | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | present | some nouns | s | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | take | present | some nouns not said here | a singular verb | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verb=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | maths | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is | present | some | like trousers and scissors and glasses; always, plural property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | have | present | maths = math | two parts | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient |
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:002-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas.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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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