Building words: prefixes, suffixes and compounds, sentence 0

Long words are often built from smaller parts, like a train made of carriages: a root in the middle, a prefix hooked on the front and a suffix hooked on the back.

What happens: build, make, hook · To what, where: Long words, smaller parts, train, prefix, suffix

This is a sentence of the lesson «Building words: prefixes, suffixes and compounds» of the language 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: 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	Long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 words	amod
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 built	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 built	aux:pass
4	often	often	ADV	_	5 built	advmod
5	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 parts	case
7	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 parts	amod
8	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 built	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 train	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 train	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 train	det
12	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 built	obl
13	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 train	acl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 carriages	case
15	carriages	carriage	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 made	obl
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 root	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 root	det
18	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 train	appos
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 middle	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 middle	det
21	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 root	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 prefix	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 prefix	det
24	prefix	prefix	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 root	conj
25	hooked	hook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 prefix	acl
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 front	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 front	det
28	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hooked	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 suffix	cc
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 suffix	det
31	suffix	suffix	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 prefix	conj
32	hooked	hook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 suffix	acl
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 back	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 back	det
35	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hooked	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 built	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	build	present · passive	Long words	smaller parts	like a train; often property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from part=Material
2	make	participle	a train not said here		of carriages	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	hook	participle	a prefix and a suffix not said here		on the front	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on front=Co-Patient
4	hook	participle	a suffix not said here		on the back	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on back=Co-Patient

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:language:037-building-words-prefixes-suffixes-and-compounds.lesson:0.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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