Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves and odd ones, sentence 25
Some words from Latin have old plurals (cactus/cacti, fungus/fungi); the English plural is often accepted too.
Who acts: words · What happens: have, accept · To what, where: old plurals, English plural
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 (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 | 2 words | det |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | nsubj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Latin | case |
| 4 | Latin | Latin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 words | nmod |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 plurals | amod |
| 7 | plurals | plural | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 cactus/cacti | punct |
| 9 | cactus/cacti | cactus/cacti | X | _ | 7 plurals | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fungus/fungi | punct |
| 11 | fungus/fungi | fungus/fungi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cactus/cacti | conj |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 cactus/cacti | punct |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 accepted | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 plural | det |
| 15 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 plural | amod |
| 16 | plural | plural | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 accepted | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 accepted | aux:pass |
| 18 | often | often | ADV | _ | 19 accepted | advmod |
| 19 | accepted | accept | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 have | parataxis |
| 20 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 accepted | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | some words from Latin | old plurals | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plural=Patient | ||||
| 2 | accept | present · passive | the English plural | often property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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:25.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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