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title: Slang words follow the ordinary plural rules (arvo, arvos), but scho… — Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves and odd ones · tree and pragmatics
description: Slang words follow the ordinary plural rules (arvo, arvos), but school writing uses the standard word (afternoons). Who acts: Slang words, school writing. 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 
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# Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves and odd ones, sentence 27

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Slang words follow the ordinary plural rules (arvo, arvos), but school writing uses the standard word (afternoons).

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**Who acts:** Slang words, school writing · **What happens:** follow, use · **To what, where:** ordinary plural rules, standard word

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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 (Slang words, school writing), 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:27
# text = Slang words follow the ordinary plural rules (arvo, arvos), but school writing uses the standard word (afternoons).
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	follow	follow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	plural	plural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
9	arvo	arvo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	arvos	arvo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:appos
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	standard	standard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
20	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
22	afternoons	afternoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	appos	_	_
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | present | Slang words | the ordinary plural rules |  |  |  | arvo and arvos *obl* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme |
| 2 | **use** | present | school writing | the standard word |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |

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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:27`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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