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title: ★★★ How many of these plurals are spelled correctly: wolves, roofs,… — Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves… · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ How many of these plurals are spelled correctly: wolves, roofs, babies, foxs? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 6 «Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves and odd ones» of the English course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was
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# Test 10 · ★ · Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves and odd ones

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★★★ How many of these plurals are spelled correctly: wolves, roofs, babies, foxs?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** spell · **To what, where:** ★

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 6 «Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves and odd ones» of the English course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/6-spelling-plurals/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:6-spelling-plurals:t10:1
# text = ★★★ How many of these plurals are spelled correctly: wolves, roofs, babies, foxs?
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
4	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	plurals	plural	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	spelled	spell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	correctly	correctly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	roofs	roof	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	foxs	fox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spell** | present · passive |  | ★ |  |  |  | wolves and roofs and babies and foxs *obl*; correctly *property* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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1

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:6-spelling-plurals:t10:o1:1
# text = 1
1	1	1	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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3

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:6-spelling-plurals:t10:o2:1
# text = 3
1	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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2

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:6-spelling-plurals:t10:o3:1
# text = 2
1	2	2	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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4

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:6-spelling-plurals:t10:o4:1
# text = 4
1	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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