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title: Longer words double only when the beat (the stress) falls on the las… — Adding -ed and -ing: doubling and dropping e · tree and pragmatics
description: Longer words double only when the beat (the stress) falls on the last part: be-GIN, beginning; for-GET, forgetting. Who acts: Longer words, beat, GIN. 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 t
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# Adding -ed and -ing: doubling and dropping e, sentence 8

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Longer words double only when the beat (the stress) falls on the last part: be-GIN, beginning; for-GET, forgetting.

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**Who acts:** Longer words, beat, GIN · **What happens:** double, fall, be, begin, get, forget · **To what, where:** last part, GIN

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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 (Longer words, beat, GIN), 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:8
# text = Longer words double only when the beat (the stress) falls on the last part: be-GIN, beginning; for-GET, forgetting.
# 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): no change
1	Longer	long	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	double	double	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	12	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	beat	beat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	stress	stress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
12	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
20	GIN	gin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	beginning	begin	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	_
26	GET	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	forgetting	forget	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	xcomp	_	_
29	.	.	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 | **double** | present | Longer words |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **fall** | present | the beat |  |  | the last part and GIN |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on part=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | infinitive | the beat *not said here* | GIN |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **begin** | gerund | GIN *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **get** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **forget** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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:007-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e.lesson:8`.

**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): no change. **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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