Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves and odd ones, sentence 1
Most nouns just add -s: cat, cats.
Who acts: Most nouns · What happens: add · To what, where: -s
This is a sentence of the lesson «Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves and odd ones» of the english 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 (Most nouns), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 nouns | amod |
| 2 | nouns | noun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 add | nsubj |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 add | advmod |
| 4 | add | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | -s | - | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 add | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 cat | punct |
| 7 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 -s | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cats | punct |
| 9 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cat | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 add | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | present | Most nouns | -s | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent -=Patient |
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): 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.
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