Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion, -sion, -ssion, -cian, sentence 1
It sounds right, but in English the /shun/ ending is almost never spelled «shun».
Who acts: It · What happens: sound, not spell · To what, where: shun ending, English
This is a sentence of the lesson «Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion, -sion, -ssion, -cian» 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 (It), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sounds | nsubj |
| 2 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sounds | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 spelled | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 spelled | cc |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 English | case |
| 7 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 spelled | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ending | det |
| 9 | / | / | PUNCT | _ | 10 shun | punct |
| 10 | shun | shun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ending | compound |
| 11 | / | / | PUNCT | _ | 10 shun | punct |
| 12 | ending | ending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spelled | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 spelled | aux |
| 14 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 15 never | advmod |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 spelled | advmod |
| 16 | spelled | spell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 sounds | conj |
| 17 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 18 shun | punct |
| 18 | shun | shun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spelled | xcomp |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 18 shun | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sounds | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | present | It | right property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not spell | present · passive | the shun ending | English | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: subject=Theme in english=Manner |
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, 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:008-endings-that-sound-like-shun.lesson:1.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.
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