--- title: Some plurals don't add -s: goose becomes geese, mouse becomes mice,… — The big language quiz · tree and pragmatics description: Some plurals don't add -s: goose becomes geese, mouse becomes mice, child becomes children, and sheep and moose stay the same. Who acts: plurals, goose, mouse, child. A sentence of the lesson «The big language quiz» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / [The big language quiz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/) / 5 # The big language quiz, sentence 5 Some plurals don't add -s: goose becomes geese, mouse becomes mice, child becomes children, and sheep and moose stay the same. **Who acts:** plurals, goose, mouse, child, sheep · **What happens:** not add, become, stay · **To what, where:** -s, geese, mice, children, same This is a sentence of the lesson «The big language quiz» 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 (plurals, goose, mouse, child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:040-the-big-language-quiz.lesson:5 # text = Some plurals don't add -s: goose becomes geese, mouse becomes mice, child becomes children, and sheep and moose stay the same. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 040-the-big-language-quiz.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 plurals plural 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 add add VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 -s - NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 8 goose goose NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 10 geese geese NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:xcomp|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 12 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 14 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 xcomp _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 18 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 xcomp _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 moose moose NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 stay stay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **add** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | some plurals | -s | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent -=Patient | | 2 | **become** | present | goose | geese | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **become** | present | mouse | mice | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **become** | present | child | children | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **stay** | present | sheep and moose | the same | | | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme same=Location | 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:040-the-big-language-quiz.lesson:5`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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: [The big language quiz, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/4/) - next →: [The big language quiz, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/)