Building words: prefixes, suffixes and compounds, sentence 7
The suffix "-ful" means full of and "-less" means without: hopeful and hopeless, careful and careless; "-ful" is spelled with one l.
Who acts: suffix · What happens: mean, spell · To what, where: ful
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 suffix | det |
| 2 | suffix | suffix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 ful | punct |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 ful | punct |
| 5 | ful | ful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 suffix | appos |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 ful | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 means | xcomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 full | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 means | cc |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 less | punct |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 less | punct |
| 13 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 means | advmod |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 less | punct |
| 15 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 means | conj |
| 16 | without | without | ADP | _ | 18 hopeful | case |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 without | punct |
| 18 | hopeful | hopeful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 means | ccomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 hopeless | cc |
| 20 | hopeless | hopeless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hopeful | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 careful | punct |
| 22 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hopeful | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 careless | cc |
| 24 | careless | careless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 careful | conj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 ful | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 ful | punct |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 ful | punct |
| 28 | ful | ful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 spelled | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 ful | punct |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 spelled | aux:pass |
| 31 | spelled | spell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 means | conj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 one | case |
| 33 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 spelled | obl |
| 34 | l. | l. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Plur | 33 one | nmod |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | the suffix | full property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | the suffix not said here | less property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | spell | present · passive | ful | with one l. | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: subject=Theme with one=Manner |
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:7.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×5. 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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