Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion, -sion, -ssion, -cian, sentence 12
And adverts sometimes spell words wrong on purpose to look fun («competishun»), so a sign is no proof of a spelling.
Who acts: adverts, sign · What happens: spell, look, be · To what, where: words, purpose, proof
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 (adverts, sign), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wrong | cc |
| 2 | adverts | advert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spell | nsubj |
| 3 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 spell | advmod |
| 4 | spell | spell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spell | obj |
| 6 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 spell | advmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 purpose | case |
| 8 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spell | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 look | mark |
| 10 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wrong | advcl |
| 11 | fun | fun | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 look | xcomp |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 competishun | punct |
| 13 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 competishun | punct |
| 14 | competishun | competishun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fun | appos |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 competishun | punct |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 competishun | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 proof | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 proof | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 sign | det |
| 20 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 proof | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 proof | cop |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 proof | det |
| 23 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spell | parataxis |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 spelling | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 spelling | det |
| 26 | spelling | spelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 proof | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spell | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spell | present | adverts | words | purpose | sometimes property | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme on purpose=Destination | ||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | adverts not said here | fun property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | a sign | no proof | of a spelling | 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:12.
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): R7-rel-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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