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title: A vowel before the y: just add -s (day, days; toy, toys). — Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves and odd ones · tree and pragmatics
description: A vowel before the y: just add -s (day, days; toy, toys). 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 6

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A vowel before the y: just add -s (day, days; toy, toys).

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**What happens:** add · **To what, where:** -s

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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: 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:6
# text = A vowel before the y: just add -s (day, days; toy, toys).
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	vowel	vowel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	before	before	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	y	y	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	add	add	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	-s	-	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:appos
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	toys	toy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	appos	_	_
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **add** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  | -s and toy |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent -=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:6`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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