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title: Some words don't change at all: one sheep, two sheep; one deer, two… — Plurals that make no sense: mice, sheep and geese · tree and pragmatics
description: Some words don't change at all: one sheep, two sheep; one deer, two deer; one moose, two moose; you know how many from the number or from "is" and "are". Who acts: words, you. A sentence of the lesson «Plurals that make no sense: mice, sheep and geese» of the language course of Mova's primary school
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# Plurals that make no sense: mice, sheep and geese, sentence 2

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Some words don't change at all: one sheep, two sheep; one deer, two deer; one moose, two moose; you know how many from the number or from "is" and "are".

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**Who acts:** words, you · **What happens:** not change, know, be · **To what, where:** one moose, all · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (words, you), 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:2
# text = Some words don't change at all: one sheep, two sheep; one deer, two deer; one moose, two moose; you know how many from the number or from "is" and "are".
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	moose	moose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	moose	moose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl
29	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
30	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	ccomp	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
35	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=41:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	_
41	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
42	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	41	punct	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **change** | present · do-support | some words | one moose and two moose |  | all |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **know** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | be *property* | tree rules |

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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:2`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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