Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness, -ment, sentence 13
Before -able the e of the root usually drops (adore, adorable), but it stays after a soft c or g to keep them soft: notice, noticeable; change, changeable.
Who acts: e · What happens: drop, adore, stay, keep · To what, where: able, c
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 (e), 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 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 3 able | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Before | punct |
| 3 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 drops | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 e | det |
| 5 | e | e | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drops | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 root | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 root | det |
| 8 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 e | nmod |
| 9 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 10 drops | advmod |
| 10 | drops | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 adore | punct |
| 12 | adore | adore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 drops | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 adorable | punct |
| 14 | adorable | adorable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 adore | conj |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 adore | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stays | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 stays | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stays | nsubj |
| 19 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 drops | conj |
| 20 | after | after | ADP | _ | 23 c | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 c | det |
| 22 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 c | amod |
| 23 | c | c | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stays | obl |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 g | cc |
| 25 | g | g | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 c | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 keep | mark |
| 27 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 stays | advcl |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 keep | obj |
| 29 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 keep | xcomp |
| 30 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 31 notice | punct |
| 31 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drops | parataxis |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 noticeable | punct |
| 33 | noticeable | noticeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 notice | amod |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 change | punct |
| 35 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 notice | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 changeable | punct |
| 37 | changeable | changeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 notice | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 drops | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | present | the e of the root | able | usually property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme before able=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | adore | infinitive | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | stay | present | e | after a soft c or g | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | keep | to-infinitive | e not said here | c | soft property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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.
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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 ×2, 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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