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title: Where a word comes from decides a lot: moose came from a Native Amer… — Plurals that make no sense: mice, sheep and geese · tree and pragmatics
description: Where a word comes from decides a lot: moose came from a Native American (Algonquian) language and mongoose from Marathi, a language of India, so neither has anything to do with goose and neither becomes "meese" or "mongeese". Who acts: word, moose, neither. A sentence of the lesson «Plurals that ma
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# Plurals that make no sense: mice, sheep and geese, sentence 3

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Where a word comes from decides a lot: moose came from a Native American (Algonquian) language and mongoose from Marathi, a language of India, so neither has anything to do with goose and neither becomes "meese" or "mongeese".

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**Who acts:** word, moose, neither · **What happens:** come from, decide, come, have, do, become · **To what, where:** lot, American Algonquian language, anything, meese

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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 (word, moose, neither), 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:3
# text = Where a word comes from decides a lot: moose came from a Native American (Algonquian) language and mongoose from Marathi, a language of India, so neither has anything to do with goose and neither becomes "meese" or "mongeese".
# 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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	4	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	decides	decide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	moose	moose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
14	Native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:amod
15	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Algonquian	algonquian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
19	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	mongoose	mongoose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Marathi	Marathi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	32	nsubj	_	_
32	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advcl
33	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	32	obj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	acl	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
41	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	42	punct	_	_
42	meese	meese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	xcomp	_	_
43	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	42	punct	_	_
44	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	46	punct	_	_
46	mongeese	mongeese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	_
47	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	46	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=42:punct
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come from** | present | a word |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **decide** | present |  | a lot |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent lot=Topic |
| 3 | **come** | past | moose |  |  | a American Algonquian language and mongoose from Marathi |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from language=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **have** | present | neither | anything |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient |
| 5 | **do** | to-infinitive | neither *not said here* | anything *not said here* |  |  |  | with goose | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **become** | present | neither *not said here* | meese or mongeese |  |  |  | neither *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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**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 ×3, R6-punct-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.

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