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title: pre- means before (preview, prehistoric); sub- means under (submarin… — Prefixes: un-, dis-, mis-, re-, pre-, in-, im-,… · tree and pragmatics
description: pre- means before (preview, prehistoric); sub- means under (submarine, subway). Who acts: sub. 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 20

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pre- means before (preview, prehistoric); sub- means under (submarine, subway).

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**Who acts:** sub · **What happens:** means · **To what, where:** submarine

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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 (sub), 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:20
# text = pre- means before (preview, prehistoric); sub- means under (submarine, subway).
# 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	pre	pre	X	AFX	_	3	nsubj	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	_
3	means	means	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
4	before	before	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
6	preview	preview	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	prehistoric	prehistoric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:amod
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	sub	sub	X	AFX	_	13	nsubj	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
13	means	means	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
14	under	under	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
16	submarine	submarine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	subway	subway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
20	.	.	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 | **means** |  | sub |  |  | submarine |  |  | 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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**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:20`.

**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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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