--- title: The best news for spellers: a prefix never changes the spelling of t… — Prefixes: un-, dis-, mis-, re-, pre-, in-, im-,… · tree and pragmatics description: The best news for spellers: a prefix never changes the spelling of the root word. Who acts: prefix. 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 and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [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/1/) [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/) / 1 # Prefixes: un-, dis-, mis-, re-, pre-, in-, im-, il-, ir-, sentence 1 The best news for spellers: a prefix never changes the spelling of the root word. **Who acts:** prefix · **What happens:** not change, spell · **To what, where:** spelling, root word 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), 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:1 # text = The best news for spellers: a prefix never changes the spelling of the root word. # 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): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 3 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 spellers speller NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 prefix prefix NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 spelling spelling NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 root root NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **change** | present | a prefix | the spelling of the root word | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spelling=Patient | | 2 | **spell** | | | the root word | | | | | nom spelling «communication transitive»: of=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](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:1`. **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): no change. **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: [Prefixes: un-, dis-, mis-, re-, pre-,…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/12-prefixes-un-dis-mis-re-pre-in-im-il-ir/0/) - next →: [Prefixes: un-, dis-, mis-, re-, pre-,…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/12-prefixes-un-dis-mis-re-pre-in-im-il-ir/2/) - ↑ 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/)