--- title: Some old common words change their vowel or ending: mouse/mice, man/… — Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves and odd ones · tree and pragmatics description: Some old common words change their vowel or ending: mouse/mice, man/men, foot/feet, tooth/teeth, goose/geese, child/children. Who acts: old common words. A sentence of the lesson «Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves and odd ones» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/6-spelling-plurals/23/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/6-spelling-plurals/) / 23 # Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves and odd ones, sentence 23 Some old common words change their vowel or ending: mouse/mice, man/men, foot/feet, tooth/teeth, goose/geese, child/children. **Who acts:** old common words · **What happens:** change · **To what, where:** vowel This is a sentence of the lesson «Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves and odd ones» 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 (old common words), 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:23 # text = Some old common words change their vowel or ending: mouse/mice, man/men, foot/feet, tooth/teeth, goose/geese, 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): R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 4 det _ _ 2 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 vowel vowel NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 ending ending NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 11 mouse/mice mouse/mice NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 man/men man/men NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 foot/feet foot/feet NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 tooth/teeth tooth/teeth NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 goose/geese goose/geese NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 child/children child/children NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 old common words | Words's vowel or ending | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vowel=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:23`. **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): R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/6-spelling-plurals/22/) - next →: [Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/6-spelling-plurals/24/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/6-spelling-plurals/)