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title: In a short word with one short vowel and one final consonant, double… — Adding -ed and -ing: doubling and dropping e · tree and pragmatics
description: In a short word with one short vowel and one final consonant, double the consonant before -ing or -ed: stop, stopped; hop, hopping. Who acts: you. 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 p
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# Adding -ed and -ing: doubling and dropping e, sentence 20

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In a short word with one short vowel and one final consonant, double the consonant before -ing or -ed: stop, stopped; hop, hopping.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** double, -ing, stop, hop · **To what, where:** consonant, short word, ed

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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 (you), 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:20
# text = In a short word with one short vowel and one final consonant, double the consonant before -ing or -ed: stop, stopped; hop, hopping.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	vowel	vowel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	final	final	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	consonant	consonant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	double	double	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	consonant	consonant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct
19	ing	-ing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
22	ed	ed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
24	stop	stop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	stopped	stop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:acl
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	hop	hop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	hopping	hop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: other
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=other

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **double** | imperative | you *not said here* | the consonant |  | a short word with one short vowel and one final consonant |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent consonant=Patient |
| 2 | **-ing** | gerund | you *not said here* | ed and stop |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stop** | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **hop** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **hop** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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: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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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