Test 11 · ★ · Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves and odd ones

★★★ Which word has a plural that adds -es AND changes its last letter?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★, plural, word · What happens: have, add, change, letter · To what, where: plural, es, last letter

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 6 «Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves and odd ones» of the English course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
2	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
3	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
4	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	5 word	det
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 plural	det
8	plural	plural	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 adds	nsubj
10	adds	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 plural	acl:relcl
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 adds	punct
12	es	e	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 adds	obj
13	AND	and	CCONJ	_	14 changes	cc
14	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 adds	conj
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 letter	nmod:poss
16	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 letter	amod
17	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 changes	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	present	★ ★ ★	a plural	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plural=Patient
2	add speech: assert	present	a plural	es	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent e=Patient
3	change	present	a plural not said here	word's last letter	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient
4	letter		word		nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

dish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

key

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

lady

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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