--- title: A prefix is a few letters added to the front of a word that change i… — Prefixes: un-, dis-, mis-, re-, pre-, in-, im-,… · tree and pragmatics description: A prefix is a few letters added to the front of a word that change its meaning: happy, unhappy; do, redo; view, preview. Who acts: prefix, word. A sentence of the lesson «Prefixes: un-, dis-, mis-, re-, pre-, in-, im-, il-, ir-» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/12-prefixes-un-dis-mis-re-pre-in-im-il-ir/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Prefixes: un-, dis-, mis-, re-, pre-,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/12-prefixes-un-dis-mis-re-pre-in-im-il-ir/) / 0 # Prefixes: un-, dis-, mis-, re-, pre-, in-, im-, il-, ir-, sentence 0 A prefix is a few letters added to the front of a word that change its meaning: happy, unhappy; do, redo; view, preview. **Who acts:** prefix, word · **What happens:** be, add, change, do, redo, mean · **To what, where:** few letters, meaning, view This is a sentence of the lesson «Prefixes: un-, dis-, mis-, re-, pre-, in-, im-, il-, ir-» 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 (prefix, word), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:012-prefixes-un-dis-mis-re-pre-in-im-il-ir.lesson:0 # text = A prefix is a few letters added to the front of a word that change its meaning: happy, unhappy; do, redo; view, preview. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 012-prefixes-un-dis-mis-re-pre-in-im-il-ir.lesson # annotation = 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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 prefix prefix NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 7 added add VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 meaning meaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 19 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 unhappy unhappy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 23 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct 25 redo redo VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 27 view view NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 preview preview NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a prefix | a few letters | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | participle | | a few letters *not said here* | | | | to the front of a word | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to front=Co-Patient | | 3 | **change** | present | a word | prefix's meaning | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Patient | | 4 | **do** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **redo** | infinitive | | view and preview | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **mean** | | prefix | | | | | | nom meaning «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:012-prefixes-un-dis-mis-re-pre-in-im-il-ir.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): R6-punct-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Homophones and near-homophones, 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/11-homophones-and-near-homophones/35/) - next →: [Prefixes: un-, dis-, mis-, re-, pre-,…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/12-prefixes-un-dis-mis-re-pre-in-im-il-ir/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/12-prefixes-un-dis-mis-re-pre-in-im-il-ir/)