--- title: A greengrocer's sign says «apple's 50p». What should it say? — Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves… · tree and pragmatics description: A greengrocer's sign says «apple's 50p». What should it say? Test 3 · ★ 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/t3/) [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/) / t3 # Test 3 · ★ · Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves and odd ones A greengrocer's sign says «apple's 50p». What should it say? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sign, greengrocer · **What happens:** say, sign · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A greengrocer's sign says «apple's 50p». ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:6-spelling-plurals:t3:1 # text = A greengrocer's sign says «apple's 50p». 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 greengrocer greengrocer NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 apple apple NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 p p NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a greengrocer's sign | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **sign** | | a greengrocer | | | | | | nom sign «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. *Sentence 2:* What should it say? ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:6-spelling-plurals:t3:2 # text = What should it say? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 2 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | should | greengrocer | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} apples' 50p ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:6-spelling-plurals:t3:o1:1 # text = apples' 50p 1 apples apple NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 p p NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} apples 50p ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:6-spelling-plurals:t3:o2:1 # text = apples 50p 1 apples apple NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 2 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 p p NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} apple's' 50p ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:6-spelling-plurals:t3:o3:1 # text = apple's' 50p 1 apple apple NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 4 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 p p NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Apple's 50P ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:6-spelling-plurals:t3:o4:1 # text = Apple's 50P 1 Apple Apple PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 P p 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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