Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves and odd ones, sentence 27
Slang words follow the ordinary plural rules (arvo, arvos), but school writing uses the standard word (afternoons).
Who acts: Slang words, school writing · What happens: follow, use · To what, where: ordinary plural rules, standard word
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 (Slang words, school writing), 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 | Slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 words | compound |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 follow | nsubj |
| 3 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rules | det |
| 5 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rules | amod |
| 6 | plural | plural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rules | amod |
| 7 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 follow | obj |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 arvo | punct |
| 9 | arvo | arvo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 follow | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 arvos | punct |
| 11 | arvos | arvo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 arvo | conj |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 arvo | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 uses | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 uses | cc |
| 15 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 writing | compound |
| 16 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 uses | nsubj |
| 17 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 follow | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 word | det |
| 19 | standard | standard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 word | amod |
| 20 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 uses | obj |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 afternoons | punct |
| 22 | afternoons | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 word | appos |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 afternoons | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 follow | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | present | Slang words | the ordinary plural rules | arvo and arvos obl | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme | |||
| 2 | use | present | school writing | the standard word | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=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:27.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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