Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion, -sion, -ssion, -cian, sentence 22
The softer /zhun/ sound is usually spelled -sion: television, division, decision.
What happens: spell · To what, where: softer sound
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sound | det |
| 2 | softer | soft | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 sound | amod |
| 3 | / | / | SYM | _ | 4 zhun | punct |
| 4 | zhun | zhun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sound | appos |
| 5 | / | / | SYM | _ | 4 zhun | punct |
| 6 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spelled | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 spelled | aux:pass |
| 8 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 9 spelled | advmod |
| 9 | spelled | spell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 sion | punct |
| 11 | sion | sion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spelled | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 television | punct |
| 13 | television | television | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sion | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 division | punct |
| 15 | division | division | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sion | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 decision | punct |
| 17 | decision | decision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sion | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 spelled | 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 · passive | the softer sound | sion and decision obl; usually property | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme |
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:22.
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 ×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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