In [1]:
from nltk.stem import WordNetLemmatizer
lemmatizer = WordNetLemmatizer()

In [2]:
print(lemmatizer.lemmatize('cats'))
print(lemmatizer.lemmatize('cacti'))
print(lemmatizer.lemmatize('geese'))
print(lemmatizer.lemmatize('rocks'))
print(lemmatizer.lemmatize('papers'))
print(lemmatizer.lemmatize('python'))
print(lemmatizer.lemmatize('scissor'))


cat
cactus
goose
rock
paper
python
scissor

In [3]:
print(lemmatizer.lemmatize('better', pos='a'))  ## a is for denoting adjective


good