--- title: Some of the oldest, commonest words change inside instead of adding… — Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves and odd ones · tree and pragmatics description: Some of the oldest, commonest words change inside instead of adding s: mouse, mice; man, men; foot, feet; tooth, teeth; child, children. Who acts: Some. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:006-spelling-plurals.lesson:11 # text = Some of the oldest, commonest words change inside instead of adding s: mouse, mice; man, men; foot, feet; tooth, teeth; child, children. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 006-spelling-plurals.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 8 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det 4 oldest old ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:amod 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 commonest commonest ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ _ 7 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:compound 8 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 inside inside ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 12 mark _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 10 fixed _ _ 12 adding add VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:acl 13 s s NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 15 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct 33 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | present | Some | man | | | | inside *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | gerund | Some *not said here* | s | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent s=Patient | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:11`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/6-spelling-plurals/10/) - next →: [Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/6-spelling-plurals/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/6-spelling-plurals/)