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title: Words ending in c add a k to keep the hard sound: panic, panicking;… — Adding -ed and -ing: doubling and dropping e · tree and pragmatics
description: Words ending in c add a k to keep the hard sound: panic, panicking; picnic, picnicked. Who acts: Words. A sentence of the lesson «Adding -ed and -ing: doubling and dropping e» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Adding -ed and -ing: doubling and dropping e, sentence 13

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Words ending in c add a k to keep the hard sound: panic, panicking; picnic, picnicked.

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**Who acts:** Words · **What happens:** end, add, keep, panic, picnic · **To what, where:** c, k, hard sound

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Adding -ed and -ing: doubling and dropping e» 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 (Words), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:007-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e.lesson:13
# text = Words ending in c add a k to keep the hard sound: panic, panicking; picnic, picnicked.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 007-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	ending	end	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	acl	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	c	c	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:obl|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
5	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	k	k	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:xcomp
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	panic	panic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	panicking	panic	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advcl
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
18	picnic	picnic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	picnicked	picnic	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:parataxis
21	.	.	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 | **end** | gerund | Words *not said here* |  |  | c |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Words | a k |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent k=Patient |
| 3 | **keep** | to-infinitive | Words *not said here* | the hard sound |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme |
| 4 | **panic** | gerund | Words *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **picnic** | past | Words *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:007-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e.lesson:13`.

**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 ×3, 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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