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title: im- is used before many words starting with m or p: impossible, imma… — Prefixes: un-, dis-, mis-, re-, pre-, in-, im-,… · tree and pragmatics
description: im- is used before many words starting with m or p: impossible, immature, impatient. Who acts: many words. 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.
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# Prefixes: un-, dis-, mis-, re-, pre-, in-, im-, il-, ir-, sentence 15

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im- is used before many words starting with m or p: impossible, immature, impatient.

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**Who acts:** many words · **What happens:** use, start · **To what, where:** im

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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 (many words), 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:15
# text = im- is used before many words starting with m or p: impossible, immature, impatient.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1
1	im	im	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	starting	start	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	m	M	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=14:punct
16	immature	immature	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	impatient	impatient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present · passive |  | im |  |  | before many words |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **start** | gerund | many words *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with m or p | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with m=Subeventuality |

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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.

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**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:15`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×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/).

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