Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion, -sion, -ssion, -cian, sentence 11

Many of these are school and work words, which is why they feel formal; a clear short word is often better than a long -tion one.

Who acts: Many, school words, television, clear short word · What happens: be, feel · To what, where: school words

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 (Many, school words, television, clear short word), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 words	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 these	case
3	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	1 Many	nmod
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 words	cop
5	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 words	compound
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 work	cc
7	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 school	conj
8	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 better	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 why	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 why	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 why	cop
12	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 words	conj
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 feel	nsubj
14	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 why	advcl
15	formal	formal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 feel	xcomp
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 better	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 word	det
18	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 word	amod
19	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 word	amod
20	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 better	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 better	cop
22	often	often	ADV	_	23 better	advmod
23	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
24	than	than	ADP	_	29 one	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 one	det
26	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 tion	amod
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 long	punct
28	tion	tion	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 one	compound
29	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 better	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 words	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Many of these	school words		tree rules
2	is	present	school words		why property	tree rules
3	feel	present	television		formal property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	is	present	a clear short word		than a tion one; good, often property	tree rules

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:11.

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, R6-punct-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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