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title: auto- means self (autobiography, automatic); bi- means two (bicycle)… — Prefixes: un-, dis-, mis-, re-, pre-, in-, im-,… · tree and pragmatics
description: auto- means self (autobiography, automatic); bi- means two (bicycle); tri- means three (tricycle). Who acts: auto, bi, tri. 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 o
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# Prefixes: un-, dis-, mis-, re-, pre-, in-, im-, il-, ir-, sentence 21

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auto- means self (autobiography, automatic); bi- means two (bicycle); tri- means three (tricycle).

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**Who acts:** auto, bi, tri · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** self, two, three

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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 (auto, bi, tri), 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:21
# text = auto- means self (autobiography, automatic); bi- means two (bicycle); tri- means three (tricycle).
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	auto	auto	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
6	autobiography	autobiography	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	automatic	automatic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	bi	bi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
13	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	obj	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
16	bicycle	bicycle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	tri	tri	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	_
21	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
22	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	obj	_	_
23	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
24	tricycle	tricycle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
26	.	.	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 | auto | self |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent self=Topic |
| 2 | **mean** | present | bi | two |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Topic |
| 3 | **mean** | present | tri | three |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Topic |

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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): 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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