Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness, -ment, sentence 16
A suffix is added to the end of a word and changes its meaning or job: -ful (full of), -less (without), -ness (a state), -ment (a thing), -ly (how), -ous (full of).
Who acts: suffix · What happens: add, change, mean · To what, where: suffix, meaning
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 (suffix), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 suffix | det |
| 2 | suffix | suffix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 added | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 added | aux:pass |
| 4 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 end | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 end | det |
| 7 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 added | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 word | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 word | det |
| 10 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 end | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 changes | cc |
| 12 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 added | conj |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 meaning | nmod:poss |
| 14 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 changes | obj |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 job | cc |
| 16 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 meaning | conj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 full | punct |
| 18 | - | - | X | _ | 21 full | advmod |
| 19 | ful | ful | X | _ | 18 - | goeswith |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 full | punct |
| 21 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 word | acl:relcl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 full | obl |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 full | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 less | punct |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 less | punct |
| 26 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 32 ness | amod |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 28 without | punct |
| 28 | without | without | ADP | _ | 26 less | obl |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 less | punct |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 less | punct |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 less | punct |
| 32 | ness | ness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 added | conj |
| 33 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 35 state | punct |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 state | det |
| 35 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 ness | appos |
| 36 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 35 state | punct |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 ment | punct |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 ment | punct |
| 39 | ment | ment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 state | nmod |
| 40 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 42 thing | punct |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 thing | det |
| 42 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 ment | appos |
| 43 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 42 thing | punct |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 ly | punct |
| 45 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 46 ly | punct |
| 46 | ly | ly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 state | conj |
| 47 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 48 how | punct |
| 48 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 state | nmod |
| 49 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 48 how | punct |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 ous | punct |
| 51 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 52 ous | punct |
| 52 | ous | ous | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 state | nmod |
| 53 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 54 full | punct |
| 54 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 ous | amod |
| 55 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 full | obl |
| 56 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 54 full | punct |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 added | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | present · passive | a suffix | to the end of a word | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to end=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | change | present | suffix's meaning or job | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Patient | |||||
| 3 | mean | suffix | nom meaning «communication transitive»: poss=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.
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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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3. 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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