Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves and odd ones, sentence 6
A vowel before the y: just add -s (day, days; toy, toys).
What happens: 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: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 vowel | det |
| 2 | vowel | vowel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | before | before | ADP | _ | 5 y | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 y | det |
| 5 | y | y | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 vowel | nmod |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 add | punct |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 add | advmod |
| 8 | add | add | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 vowel | parataxis |
| 9 | -s | - | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 add | obj |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 day | punct |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 -s | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 days | punct |
| 13 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 day | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 toy | punct |
| 15 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 -s | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 toys | punct |
| 17 | toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 toy | appos |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 toys | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 vowel | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | infinitive | -s and toy | 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:6.
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): R5-strong ×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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