The big language quiz, sentence 5

Some plurals don't add -s: goose becomes geese, mouse becomes mice, child becomes children, and sheep and moose stay the same.

Who acts: plurals, goose, mouse, child, sheep · What happens: not add, become, stay · To what, where: -s, geese, mice, children, same

This is a sentence of the lesson «The big language quiz» 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, goose, mouse, child), 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 plurals	det
2	plurals	plural	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 add	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 add	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 add	advmod
5	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	-s	-	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 add	obj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 goose	punct
8	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 becomes	nsubj
9	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 add	parataxis
10	geese	geese	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 becomes	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 becomes	punct
12	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 becomes	nsubj
13	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 becomes	conj
14	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 becomes	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 becomes	punct
16	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 becomes	nsubj
17	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 becomes	conj
18	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 becomes	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stay	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 stay	cc
21	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 stay	nsubj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 moose	cc
23	moose	moose	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sheep	conj
24	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 becomes	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 same	det
26	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 stay	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 add	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not add speech: assert	present · do-support	some plurals	-s	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent -=Patient
2	become	present	goose	geese	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	become	present	mouse	mice	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	become	present	child	children	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	stay	present	sheep and moose	the same	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme same=Location

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:040-the-big-language-quiz.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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