Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion, -sion, -ssion, -cian, sentence 27

Slang in this lesson: «bruv» means brother or mate and «peak» means bad luck or annoying (London); «grand» means fine and «yer man» means «that fella» (Ireland); «it's giving» means «it seems like» (Gen Alpha and Gen Z).

Who acts: bruv, peak, grand, yer man, giving, it · What happens: mean, annoy, give, seem · To what, where: brother, bad luck, London, fella, Gen · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (bruv, peak, grand, yer man), 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	Slang	slang	NOUN	_	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 lesson	case
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 lesson	det
4	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Slang	nmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Slang	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 bruv	punct
7	bruv	bruv	X	_	9 means	nsubj
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 bruv	punct
9	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Slang	parataxis
10	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 means	obj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 mate	cc
12	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 brother	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 means	cc
14	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 peak	punct
15	peak	peak	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 means	nsubj
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 peak	punct
17	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 means	conj
18	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 luck	amod
19	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 means	obj
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 annoying	cc
21	annoying	annoy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 luck	conj
22	(	(	PUNCT	_	23 London	punct
23	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 annoying	obj
24	)	)	PUNCT	_	23 London	punct
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 means	punct
26	«	«	PUNCT	_	27 grand	punct
27	grand	grand	X	_	29 means	nsubj
28	»	»	PUNCT	_	27 grand	punct
29	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Slang	advcl
30	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 means	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 means	cc
32	«	«	PUNCT	_	34 man	punct
33	yer	y	X	_	34 man	flat
34	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 means	nsubj
35	»	»	PUNCT	_	34 man	punct
36	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 means	conj
37	«	«	PUNCT	_	39 fella	punct
38	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 fella	det
39	fella	fella	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 means	obj
40	»	»	PUNCT	_	39 fella	punct
41	(	(	PUNCT	_	42 Ireland	punct
42	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 fella	appos
43	)	)	PUNCT	_	42 Ireland	punct
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 means	punct
45	«	«	PUNCT	_	48 giving	punct
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 giving	nsubj
47	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 giving	aux
48	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	50 means	csubj
49	»	»	PUNCT	_	48 giving	punct
50	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Slang	parataxis
51	«	«	PUNCT	_	53 seems	punct
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 seems	nsubj
53	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 means	ccomp
54	like	like	ADP	_	53 seems	advmod
55	»	»	PUNCT	_	53 seems	punct
56	(	(	PUNCT	_	57 Gen	punct
57	Gen	Gen	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 seems	obl
58	Alpha	Alpha	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 Gen	flat
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 Z	cc
60	Gen	Gen	PROPN	Number=Sing	61 Z	compound
61	Z	z	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 Alpha	conj
62	)	)	PUNCT	_	58 Alpha	punct
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Slang	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	present	bruv	brother or mate	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Topic
2	mean	present	peak	bad luck	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Topic
3	annoy	gerund	peak not said here	London	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus london=Experiencer
4	mean	present	grand		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
5	mean	present	yer man	that fella	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fella=Topic
6	give in a quote	present · progressive	peak		vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
7	mean	present	giving		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	seem in a quote	present	it	Gen	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=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:27.

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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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