--- title: ★★★ Which word has a plural that adds -es AND changes its last letter? — Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves… · tree and pragmatics description: ★★★ Which word has a plural that adds -es AND changes its last letter? Test 11 · ★ 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 wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/6-spelling-plurals/t11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/) / [Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/6-spelling-plurals/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★ · Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves and odd ones ★★★ Which word has a plural that adds -es AND changes its last letter? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★ ★ ★, plural, word · **What happens:** have, add, change, letter · **To what, where:** plural, es, last letter This is test 11 · ★ 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/#t11). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:6-spelling-plurals:t11:1 # text = ★★★ Which word has a plural that adds -es AND changes its last letter? 1 ★ ★ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ★ ★ NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ★ ★ NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 5 det _ _ 5 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 plural plural NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 adds add VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 es e NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 AND and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 15 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | ★ ★ ★ | a plural | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plural=Patient | | 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | a plural | es | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent e=Patient | | 3 | **change** | present | a plural *not said here* | word's last letter | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient | | 4 | **letter** | | word | | | | | | nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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} dish ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:6-spelling-plurals:t11:o1:1 # text = dish 1 dish dish NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} cat ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:6-spelling-plurals:t11:o2:1 # text = cat 1 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} key ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:6-spelling-plurals:t11:o3:1 # text = key 1 key key NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} lady ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:6-spelling-plurals:t11:o4:1 # text = lady 1 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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