Building words: prefixes, suffixes and compounds, sentence 12

"-ish" is an old English suffix meaning somewhat, as in childish and reddish; today people also say "7-ish" and even answer just "Ish."

Who acts: ish, old English suffix, people · What happens: be, meaning, say, answer · To what, where: old English suffix, 7 ish, Ish · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (ish, old English suffix, people), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 ish	punct
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 ish	punct
3	ish	ish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 suffix	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 ish	punct
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 suffix	cop
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 suffix	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 suffix	amod
8	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 suffix	amod
9	suffix	suffix	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	meaning	meaning	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 suffix	acl
11	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	10 meaning	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 say	punct
13	as	as	ADP	_	15 childish	case
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 childish	case
15	childish	childish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 suffix	advcl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 reddish	cc
17	reddish	reddish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 childish	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 childish	punct
19	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 say	obl
20	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 say	nsubj
21	also	also	ADV	_	22 say	advmod
22	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 suffix	parataxis
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 ish	punct
24	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	26 ish	nummod
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 7	punct
26	ish	ish	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 say	obj
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 ish	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 answer	cc
29	even	even	ADV	_	30 answer	advmod
30	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 say	conj
31	just	just	ADV	_	33 Ish	advmod
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 Ish	punct
33	Ish	ish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 answer	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 answer	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 answer	punct

Pragmatics

form: fragment
act: suggest
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	ish	a old English suffix			tree rules
2	meaning	gerund	a old English suffix not said here			somewhat property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present	people	7 ish	today		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ish=Topic
4	answer speech: assert	infinitive	people not said here	Ish			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent ish=Eventuality

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:12.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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