Test 12 · ★ · Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves and odd ones
★★★ «Two teeth, two feet, two geese.» What is the plural of «goose» and of «moose»?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: plural
This is test 12 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: ★★★ «Two teeth, two feet, two geese.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 teeth | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 teeth | punct |
| 5 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 teeth | nummod |
| 6 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 feet | punct |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 feet | nummod |
| 9 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 teeth | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 geese | punct |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 geese | nummod |
| 12 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 teeth | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 teeth | punct |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 teeth | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: What is the plural of «goose» and of «moose»?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 plural | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 plural | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 plural | det |
| 4 | plural | plural | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 goose | case |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 goose | punct |
| 7 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plural | nmod |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 goose | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 moose | cc |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 moose | case |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 12 moose | punct |
| 12 | moose | moose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plural | conj |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 moose | punct |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 plural | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the plural and moose | of goose | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
geese and meese
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 meese | cc |
| 3 | meese | meese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 geese | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
geese and moose
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 moose | cc |
| 3 | moose | moose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 geese | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
gooses and moose
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gooses | goose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 moose | cc |
| 3 | moose | moose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 gooses | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | goose | present | tree rules |
Option 4
geese and mooses only
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 mooses | cc |
| 3 | mooses | moos | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 geese | conj |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 1 geese | advmod |
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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