Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness, -ment, sentence 1

«-ful» means full of (hopeful), «-less» means without (useless), «-ness» makes a feeling or state into a thing (kindness), «-ment» makes a thing from a verb (enjoyment), «-ly» often tells how (slowly), and «-ous» makes describing words meaning full of (famous, dangerous).

Who acts: ful, less, ness, ment, ly, ous · What happens: mean, make, tell, describe · To what, where: feeling, thing, verb · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness, -ment» 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 (ful, less, ness, ment), 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 ful	punct
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 ful	punct
3	ful	ful	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
4	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 ful	punct
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 means	xcomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 hopeful	case
8	(	(	PUNCT	_	9 hopeful	punct
9	hopeful	hopeful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 full	obl
10	)	)	PUNCT	_	9 hopeful	punct
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 «	punct
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 less	punct
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 less	punct
14	less	less	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 means	nsubj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 less	punct
16	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 means	parataxis
17	without	without	ADP	_	19 useless	case
18	(	(	PUNCT	_	19 useless	punct
19	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 means	ccomp
20	)	)	PUNCT	_	19 useless	punct
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 makes	punct
22	«	«	PUNCT	_	24 ness	punct
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 ness	punct
24	ness	ness	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 makes	nsubj
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	24 ness	punct
26	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 useless	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 feeling	det
28	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 makes	obj
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 state	cc
30	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 feeling	conj
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 thing	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 thing	det
33	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 makes	obl
34	(	(	PUNCT	_	35 kindness	punct
35	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 thing	appos
36	)	)	PUNCT	_	35 kindness	punct
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 makes	punct
38	«	«	PUNCT	_	40 ment	punct
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 ment	punct
40	ment	ment	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 makes	nsubj
41	»	»	PUNCT	_	40 ment	punct
42	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 makes	conj
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 thing	det
44	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 makes	obj
45	from	from	ADP	_	47 verb	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 verb	det
47	verb	verb	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 thing	nmod
48	(	(	PUNCT	_	49 enjoyment	punct
49	enjoyment	enjoyment	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 verb	appos
50	)	)	PUNCT	_	49 enjoyment	punct
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 »	punct
52	«	«	PUNCT	_	54 ly	punct
53	-	-	PUNCT	_	54 ly	punct
54	ly	ly	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 tells	nsubj
55	»	»	PUNCT	_	54 ly	punct
56	often	often	ADV	_	57 tells	advmod
57	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 makes	conj
58	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	60 slowly	advmod
59	(	(	PUNCT	_	60 slowly	punct
60	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	57 tells	advmod
61	)	)	PUNCT	_	60 slowly	punct
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 «	punct
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	68 makes	cc
64	«	«	PUNCT	_	66 ous	punct
65	-	-	PUNCT	_	66 ous	punct
66	ous	ous	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 makes	nsubj
67	»	»	PUNCT	_	66 ous	punct
68	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 tells	conj
69	describing	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	68 makes	xcomp
70	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	71 meaning	nsubj
71	meaning	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	69 describing	ccomp
72	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 meaning	xcomp
73	of	of	ADP	_	75 famous	case
74	(	(	PUNCT	_	75 famous	punct
75	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	72 full	obl
76	,	,	PUNCT	_	77 dangerous	punct
77	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	75 famous	conj
78	)	)	PUNCT	_	75 famous	punct
79	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present	ful			full property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	mean	present	less				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	make	present	ness	a feeling or state	a thing		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent feeling=Material into thing=Product
4	make	present	ment	a thing	a verb		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset thing=Product from verb=Material
5	tell speech: assert	present	ly			often, slowly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	make	present	ous				tree rules
7	describe	gerund	ous not said here				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	mean	gerund	words			full property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

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:009-suffixes-ous-ly-ful-less-ness-ment.lesson:1.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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