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title: Trousers, scissors, glasses and pliers are plural-only nouns: one ob… — Plurals that make no sense: mice, sheep and geese · tree and pragmatics
description: Trousers, scissors, glasses and pliers are plural-only nouns: one object with two matching parts, counted with "a pair of". Who acts: Trousers. A sentence of the lesson «Plurals that make no sense: mice, sheep and geese» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# Plurals that make no sense: mice, sheep and geese, sentence 16

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Trousers, scissors, glasses and pliers are plural-only nouns: one object with two matching parts, counted with "a pair of".

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**Who acts:** Trousers · **What happens:** be, match, count · **To what, where:** plural nouns, one object

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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 (Trousers), 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:16
# text = Trousers, scissors, glasses and pliers are plural-only nouns: one object with two matching parts, counted with "a pair of".
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Trousers	trousers	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	scissors	scissors	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	pliers	plier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	plural	plural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	nouns	noun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
18	matching	match	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	amod	_	_
19	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	counted	count	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:":_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Trousers and scissors and glasses and pliers | plural nouns |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **match** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **count** | participle |  | one object with two matching parts *not said here* |  |  |  | with a pair | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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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.

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**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: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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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