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title: Some nouns are the same in the plural: sheep, deer, moose, aircraft,… — Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves and odd ones · tree and pragmatics
description: Some nouns are the same in the plural: sheep, deer, moose, aircraft, and usually fish. Who acts: nouns. 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 tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves and odd ones, sentence 24

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Some nouns are the same in the plural: sheep, deer, moose, aircraft, and usually fish.

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**Who acts:** nouns · **What happens:** be

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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 (nouns), 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:24
# text = Some nouns are the same in the plural: sheep, deer, moose, aircraft, and usually fish.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	nouns	noun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:det
8	plural	plural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	moose	moose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	aircraft	aircraft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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** | present | some nouns |  |  |  |  | same *property* | 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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**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:24`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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/).

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