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title: The doubles are not mistakes; they are the end of the prefix meeting… — Prefixes: un-, dis-, mis-, re-, pre-, in-, im-,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The doubles are not mistakes; they are the end of the prefix meeting the start of the word. Who acts: doubles, prefix. 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 eve
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# Prefixes: un-, dis-, mis-, re-, pre-, in-, im-, il-, ir-, sentence 4

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The doubles are not mistakes; they are the end of the prefix meeting the start of the word.

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**Who acts:** doubles, prefix · **What happens:** not be, be, meet, start · **To what, where:** mistakes, end, start, word

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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 (doubles, prefix), 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:4
# text = The doubles are not mistakes; they are the end of the prefix meeting the start of the word.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	doubles	double	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:appos
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	prefix	prefix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	meeting	meet	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	acl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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** **is a** | present | the doubles | mistakes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | doubles *= double* | the end |  |  |  | of the prefix | tree rules |
| 3 | **meet** | gerund | the prefix *not said here* | the start of the word |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent start=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **start** |  |  | the word |  |  |  |  | nom start «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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:4`.

**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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