Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness, -ment, sentence 24
Before -able, a final e usually drops (adorable) but stays after soft c or g (noticeable, changeable).
Who acts: final e · What happens: drop, stay · To what, where: adorable, able
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 (final 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 | 9 drops | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 able | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 e | det |
| 6 | final | final | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 e | amod |
| 7 | e | e | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drops | nsubj |
| 8 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 9 drops | advmod |
| 9 | drops | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 adorable | punct |
| 11 | adorable | adorable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 drops | obj |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 adorable | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 stays | cc |
| 14 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 drops | conj |
| 15 | after | after | ADP | _ | 17 c | case |
| 16 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 c | amod |
| 17 | c | c | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stays | obl |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 g | cc |
| 19 | g | g | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 c | conj |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 noticeable | punct |
| 21 | noticeable | noticeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 g | amod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 changeable | punct |
| 23 | changeable | changeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 noticeable | conj |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 noticeable | punct |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 drops | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | present | a final e | adorable | able | usually property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent adorable=Theme before able=Destination | ||
| 2 | stay | present | a final e not said here | after soft c or g | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: 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:009-suffixes-ous-ly-ful-less-ness-ment.lesson:24.
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): no change. 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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