Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion, -sion, -ssion, -cian, sentence 10

Adding -tion often turns a doing word (verb) into a thing word (noun): inform becomes information, educate becomes education.

Who acts: tion, inform, educate · What happens: add, turn, do, become · To what, where: doing word, thing word, information, education

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 (tion, inform, educate), 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	Adding	add	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 turns	csubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 tion	punct
3	tion	tion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turns	nsubj
4	often	often	ADV	_	5 turns	advmod
5	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 word	det
7	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 word	amod
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turns	obj
9	(	(	PUNCT	_	10 verb	punct
10	verb	verb	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 word	appos
11	)	)	PUNCT	_	10 verb	punct
12	into	into	ADP	_	15 word	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 word	det
14	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 word	compound
15	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 word	nmod
16	(	(	PUNCT	_	17 noun	punct
17	noun	noun	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 word	appos
18	)	)	PUNCT	_	17 noun	punct
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 inform	punct
20	inform	inform	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 becomes	nsubj
21	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 turns	parataxis
22	information	information	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 becomes	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 educate	punct
24	educate	educate	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 becomes	nsubj
25	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 becomes	conj
26	education	education	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 becomes	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 turns	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	gerund					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	turn	present	tion	a doing word	a thing word	often property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent word=Theme into word=Trajectory
3	do	gerund					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	become	present	inform	information			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	become	present	educate	education			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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:10.

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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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