--- title: That is why "two hice" sounds silly: house took the ordinary -s long… — Plurals that make no sense: mice, sheep and geese · tree and pragmatics description: That is why "two hice" sounds silly: house took the ordinary -s long ago, while mouse kept its old Old English plural; it is history, not logic. Who acts: That, two hice, house, mouse. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, two hice, house, mouse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:010-plurals-mice-sheep-and-geese.lesson:1 # text = That is why "two hice" sounds silly: house took the ordinary -s long ago, while mouse kept its old Old English plural; it is history, not logic. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 010-plurals-mice-sheep-and-geese.lesson # annotation = 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 1 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 why why ADV WRB PronType=Rel 0 root _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 5 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 hice hice NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl:relcl _ _ 9 silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 11 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 ordinary ordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 obj _ _ 15 -s -s PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ _ 16 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 17 advmod _ _ 17 ago ago ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 while while SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 22 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 23 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 24 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 compound _ _ 26 plural plural NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 history history NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 logic logic NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | That | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **sound** | present | two hice | | | | | silly *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **take** | past | house | the ordinary | | | | ago *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ordinary=Theme | | 4 | **keep** | past | mouse | house's old Old English plural | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plural=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | hice | history and logic | | | | | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:1`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Plurals that make no sense: mice, shee…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/10-plurals-mice-sheep-and-geese/0/) - next →: [Plurals that make no sense: mice, shee…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/10-plurals-mice-sheep-and-geese/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/10-plurals-mice-sheep-and-geese/)