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title: dis- means not or the opposite: disagree, dislike, disrespect; the s… — Prefixes: un-, dis-, mis-, re-, pre-, in-, im-,… · tree and pragmatics
description: dis- means not or the opposite: disagree, dislike, disrespect; the slang «diss» comes from «disrespect». Who acts: dis, slang. 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 pragmatic
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# Prefixes: un-, dis-, mis-, re-, pre-, in-, im-, il-, ir-, sentence 19

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dis- means not or the opposite: disagree, dislike, disrespect; the slang «diss» comes from «disrespect».

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**Who acts:** dis, slang · **What happens:** not mean, disagree, dislike, come · **To what, where:** opposite, disrespect

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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 (dis, slang), 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:19
# text = dis- means not or the opposite: disagree, dislike, disrespect; the slang «diss» comes from «disrespect».
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obj	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	disagree	disagree	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	dislike	dislike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	disrespect	disrespect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
18	diss	diss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:appos|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
19	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
20	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
23	disrespect	disrespect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
25	.	.	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 | **not** **mean** | present | dis | the opposite |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opposite=Topic |
| 2 | **disagree** | infinitive | dis *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **dislike** | infinitive | dis *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **come** | present | the slang |  |  | disrespect |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from disrespect=Initial\_Location |

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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:19`.

**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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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