Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves and odd ones, sentence 24
Some nouns are the same in the plural: sheep, deer, moose, aircraft, and usually fish.
Who acts: nouns · What happens: be
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 (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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 nouns | det |
| 2 | nouns | noun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 same | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 same | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 same | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 sheep | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 plural | det |
| 8 | plural | plural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sheep | amod |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 sheep | punct |
| 10 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 same | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 deer | punct |
| 12 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sheep | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 moose | punct |
| 14 | moose | moose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sheep | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 aircraft | punct |
| 16 | aircraft | aircraft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sheep | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fish | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fish | cc |
| 19 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 20 fish | advmod |
| 20 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sheep | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 same | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | some nouns | same property | tree rules |
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:24.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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