--- title: It sounds right, but in English the /shun/ ending is almost never sp… — Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion, -sion, -s… · tree and pragmatics description: It sounds right, but in English the /shun/ ending is almost never spelled «shun». Who acts: It. A sentence of the lesson «Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion, -sion, -ssion, -cian» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/8-endings-that-sound-like-shun/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/8-endings-that-sound-like-shun/) / 1 # Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion, -sion, -ssion, -cian, sentence 1 It sounds right, but in English the /shun/ ending is almost never spelled «shun». **Who acts:** It · **What happens:** sound, not spell · **To what, where:** shun ending, English This is a sentence of the lesson «Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion, -sion, -ssion, -cian» 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 (It), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:008-endings-that-sound-like-shun.lesson:1 # text = It sounds right, but in English the /shun/ ending is almost never spelled «shun». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 008-endings-that-sound-like-shun.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 5 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 9 / / PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=SYM:,:_ 10 shun shun NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 11 / / PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 ending ending NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 14 almost almost ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advmod 15 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 spelled spell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 17 « « PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 18 shun shun NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obj 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 20 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sound** | present | It | | | | | right *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **not** **spell** | present · passive | | the shun ending | | English | | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: subject=Theme in english=Manner | 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. **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:008-endings-that-sound-like-shun.lesson:1`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Adding -ed and -ing: doubling and drop…, 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/29/) - next →: [Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion,…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/8-endings-that-sound-like-shun/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/8-endings-that-sound-like-shun/)