Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves and odd ones, sentence 23
Some old common words change their vowel or ending: mouse/mice, man/men, foot/feet, tooth/teeth, goose/geese, child/children.
Who acts: old common words · What happens: change · To what, where: vowel
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 (old common words), 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 | 4 words | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 words | amod |
| 3 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 words | amod |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 change | nsubj |
| 5 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 vowel | nmod:poss |
| 7 | vowel | vowel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 change | obj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 ending | cc |
| 9 | ending | ending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 vowel | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 mouse/mice | punct |
| 11 | mouse/mice | mouse/mice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 vowel | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 man/men | punct |
| 13 | man/men | man/men | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mouse/mice | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 foot/feet | punct |
| 15 | foot/feet | foot/feet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mouse/mice | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tooth/teeth | punct |
| 17 | tooth/teeth | tooth/teeth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mouse/mice | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 goose/geese | punct |
| 19 | goose/geese | goose/geese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mouse/mice | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 child/children | punct |
| 21 | child/children | child/children | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 mouse/mice | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 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 old common words | Words's vowel or ending | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vowel=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:23.
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 ×3. 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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