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title: Sheep, deer and moose are the same in singular and plural; fish is u… — Plurals that make no sense: mice, sheep and geese · tree and pragmatics
description: Sheep, deer and moose are the same in singular and plural; fish is usually the same too (three fish). Who acts: Sheep, fish. 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 the pragmatics of eve
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# Plurals that make no sense: mice, sheep and geese, sentence 6

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Sheep, deer and moose are the same in singular and plural; fish is usually the same too (three fish).

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**Who acts:** Sheep, fish · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** singular

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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 (Sheep, fish), 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:6
# text = Sheep, deer and moose are the same in singular and plural; fish is usually the same too (three fish).
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:appos
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	moose	moose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	singular	singular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	plural	plural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
19	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
21	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:parataxis|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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** | present | Sheep and deer and moose |  |  | singular |  | same *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | fish |  |  |  |  | same, usually *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:6`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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