Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves and odd ones, sentence 8
Many words ending in -f or -fe turn into -ves: leaf, leaves; loaf, loaves; knife, knives; wolf, wolves; half, halves.
Who acts: Many words · What happens: end, turn · To what, where: f, ves
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 (Many 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 words | amod |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 turn | nsubj |
| 3 | ending | end | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 words | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 f | case |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 in | punct |
| 6 | f | f | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ending | obl |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 fe | cc |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 or | punct |
| 9 | fe | fe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 f | conj |
| 10 | turn | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 ves | case |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 into | punct |
| 13 | ves | ve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 turn | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 leaf | punct |
| 15 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 words | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 leaves | punct |
| 17 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 words | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 loaf | punct |
| 19 | loaf | loaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 words | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 loaves | punct |
| 21 | loaves | loaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 words | conj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 knife | punct |
| 23 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 words | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 knives | punct |
| 25 | knives | knife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 words | conj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 wolf | punct |
| 27 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 words | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 wolves | punct |
| 29 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 words | conj |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 half | punct |
| 31 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 2 words | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 halves | punct |
| 33 | halves | half | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 words | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 words | 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 | end | gerund | Many words and leaf and leaves and loaf and loaves and knife and knives and wolf and wolves and half and halves not said here | f or fe | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | turn | participle | Many words and leaf and leaves and loaf and loaves and knife and knives and wolf and wolves and half and halves | ves | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into ve=Trajectory |
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:8.
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 ×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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