Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness, -ment, sentence 5
When a word ends in -our, the u usually drops before -ous: humour, humorous; glamour, glamorous.
Who acts: word, u · What happens: end, drop · To what, where: our, humour, ous
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 (word, u), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 ends | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 word | det |
| 3 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ends | nsubj |
| 4 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 drops | advcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 our | case |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 our | punct |
| 7 | our | our | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ends | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 drops | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 u | det |
| 10 | u | u | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drops | nsubj |
| 11 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 12 drops | advmod |
| 12 | drops | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 ous | case |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 ous | punct |
| 15 | ous | ous | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drops | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 humour | punct |
| 17 | humour | humour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drops | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 humorous | punct |
| 19 | humorous | humorous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 humour | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 glamour | punct |
| 21 | glamour | glamour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 humour | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 glamorous | punct |
| 23 | glamorous | glamorous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 glamour | amod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 drops | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | present | a word | our | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | drop | present | the u | humour and glamour | ous | usually property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent humour=Theme before ous=Destination |
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:5.
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 ×1, R7-rel-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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