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title: In Turkish, the plural ending is -ler when the word's last vowel is… — Olympiad: real languages and codes · tree and pragmatics
description: In Turkish, the plural ending is -ler when the word's last vowel is e, i, ö or ü, and -lar when it is a, ı, o or u: ev, evler (houses); kedi, kediler (cats); kitap, kitaplar (books). Who acts: plural ending, last vowel, word. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: real languages and codes» of the engli
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# Olympiad: real languages and codes, sentence 7

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In Turkish, the plural ending is -ler when the word's last vowel is e, i, ö or ü, and -lar when it is a, ı, o or u: ev, evler (houses); kedi, kediler (cats); kitap, kitaplar (books).

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**Who acts:** plural ending, last vowel, word · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** ler, Turkish, ı

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: real languages and codes» 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 (plural ending, last vowel, word), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:059-olympiad-real-languages-and-codes.lesson:7
# text = In Turkish, the plural ending is -ler when the word's last vowel is e, i, ö or ü, and -lar when it is a, ı, o or u: ev, evler (houses); kedi, kediler (cats); kitap, kitaplar (books).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 059-olympiad-real-languages-and-codes.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×3
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Turkish	Turkish	PROPN	NNP	_	9	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	plural	plural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ending	ending	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
9	ler	ler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	_
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	vowel	vowel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	e	e	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	acl:relcl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	i	i	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	ö	ö	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	ü	ü	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	_
27	lar	lar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
28	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	33	advmod	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct
33	ı	ı	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37:punct
35	o	of	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
36	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	u	u	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
38	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
39	ev	ev	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	appos	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	evler	evler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
42	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	43	punct	_	_
43	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	appos	_	_
44	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	43	punct	_	_
45	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=48:punct
46	kedi	kedi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	48	dep	_	_
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	kediler	kediler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
49	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	50	punct	_	_
50	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	appos	_	_
51	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	50	punct	_	_
52	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
53	kitap	kitap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	_
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
55	kitaplar	kitaplar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	_
56	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	57	punct	_	_
57	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	appos	_	_
58	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	57	punct	_	_
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the plural ending | ler and ö or ü and lar and a ı and o or u |  | Turkish |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the word's last vowel |  |  |  |  | e *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | word | a ı and o or u |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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): R6-punct-agree ×3. **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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