Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves and odd ones, sentence 20
Consonant + y changes to -ies (baby, babies); vowel + y just adds -s (day, days).
Who acts: Consonant, vowel · What happens: change, 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 (Consonant, vowel), 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 | Consonant | consonant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changes | nsubj |
| 2 | + | + | SYM | _ | 1 Consonant | compound |
| 3 | y | y | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changes | flat |
| 4 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 ies | case |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 to | punct |
| 7 | ies | ie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 changes | obl |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 baby | punct |
| 9 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ies | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 babies | punct |
| 11 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 baby | conj |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 baby | punct |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 changes | punct |
| 14 | vowel | vowel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 adds | nsubj |
| 15 | + | + | SYM | _ | 16 y | case |
| 16 | y | y | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 vowel | nmod |
| 17 | just | just | ADV | _ | 18 adds | advmod |
| 18 | adds | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 changes | parataxis |
| 19 | -s | - | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 adds | obj |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 day | punct |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 -s | appos |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 days | punct |
| 23 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 -s | appos |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 adds | punct |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 changes | 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 | Consonant | to ies result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Agent to ie=Result | ||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | present | vowel + y | -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.
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:20.
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): no change. 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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