--- title: Adding -tion often turns a doing word (verb) into a thing word (noun… — Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion, -sion, -s… · tree and pragmatics description: Adding -tion often turns a doing word (verb) into a thing word (noun): inform becomes information, educate becomes education. Who acts: tion, inform, educate. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tion, inform, educate), 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:10 # text = Adding -tion often turns a doing word (verb) into a thing word (noun): inform becomes information, educate becomes education. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Adding add VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 csubj _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 3 tion tion NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obj 4 often often ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 amod _ _ 8 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 10 verb verb NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 11 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 12 into into ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 17 noun noun NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 appos _ _ 18 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 19 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 20 inform inform NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 21 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 22 information information NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:obj 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 educate educate NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 25 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 26 education education NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:obj 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **turn** | present | tion | a doing word | | a thing word | | often *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent word=Theme into word=Trajectory | | 3 | **do** | gerund | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **become** | present | inform | information | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **become** | present | educate | education | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | 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:10`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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: [Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion,…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/8-endings-that-sound-like-shun/8/) - next →: [Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion,…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/8-endings-that-sound-like-shun/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/8-endings-that-sound-like-shun/)