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title: mis- means wrongly: misread, misspell, misbehave. — Prefixes: un-, dis-, mis-, re-, pre-, in-, im-,… · tree and pragmatics
description: mis- means wrongly: misread, misspell, misbehave. Who acts: mis. 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 18

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mis- means wrongly: misread, misspell, misbehave.

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**Who acts:** mis · **What happens:** mean, misread, misspell, misbehave

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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 (mis), 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:18
# text = mis- means wrongly: misread, misspell, misbehave.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	mis	mis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	wrongly	wrongly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	misread	misread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	misspell	misspell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	misbehave	misbehave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **mean** | present | mis |  |  |  |  | wrongly *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **misread** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **misspell** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **misbehave** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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): R7-rel-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/).

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