Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves and odd ones, sentence 11
Some of the oldest, commonest words change inside instead of adding s: mouse, mice; man, men; foot, feet; tooth, teeth; child, children.
Who acts: Some · What happens: change, add · To what, where: man, 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 (Some), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 change | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 change | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 words | det |
| 4 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 words | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 oldest | punct |
| 6 | commonest | commonest | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 words | amod |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Some | nmod |
| 8 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 8 change | advmod |
| 10 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 12 adding | mark |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 instead | fixed |
| 12 | adding | add | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 change | advcl |
| 13 | s | s | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 adding | obj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 mouse | punct |
| 15 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 change | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 mice | punct |
| 17 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 change | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 man | punct |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 change | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 men | punct |
| 21 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 change | conj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 foot | punct |
| 23 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 change | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 feet | punct |
| 25 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 change | conj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 tooth | punct |
| 27 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 change | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 teeth | punct |
| 29 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 change | conj |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 child | punct |
| 31 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 change | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 children | punct |
| 33 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 change | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 change | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | present | Some | man | inside property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | add speech: assert | gerund | Some not said here | s | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent s=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.
Licence: CC 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:english:006-spelling-plurals.lesson:11.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-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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