Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion, -sion, -ssion, -cian, sentence 26
Many -tion words sound formal; use them when they are clearer, not just to sound clever.
Who acts: tion words, you, spellings · What happens: sound, use, be, not sound · To what, where: spellings
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 words, you, spellings), 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 | 3 tion | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Many | punct |
| 3 | tion | tion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 words | compound |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sound | nsubj |
| 5 | sound | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 use | parataxis |
| 6 | formal | formal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sound | xcomp |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 sound | punct |
| 8 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 use | obj |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 clearer | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 clearer | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 clearer | cop |
| 13 | clearer | clear | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 use | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sound | punct |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 sound | advmod |
| 16 | just | just | ADV | _ | 18 sound | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 sound | mark |
| 18 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 clearer | conj |
| 19 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sound | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sound | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | present | tion words | formal property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | use | imperative | you not said here | spellings = spelling | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | spellings = spelling | clear property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not sound | to-infinitive | spellings = spelling not said here | clever property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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:26.
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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