--- title: Many of these are school and work words, which is why they feel form… — Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion, -sion, -s… · tree and pragmatics description: Many of these are school and work words, which is why they feel formal; a clear short word is often better than a long -tion one. Who acts: Many, school words, television, clear short word. 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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 (Many, school words, television, clear short word), 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:11 # text = Many of these are school and work words, which is why they feel formal; a clear short word is often better than a long -tion one. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 1 nmod _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 5 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 parataxis _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 conj _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 15 formal formal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 18 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 often often ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 24 than than ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 26 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:amod 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ _ 28 tion tion NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Many of these | school words | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | school words | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **feel** | present | television | | | | | formal *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **is** | present | a clear short word | | | | | than a tion one; good, often *property* | tree rules | 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:11`. **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, R6-punct-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: [Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion,…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/8-endings-that-sound-like-shun/10/) - next →: [Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion,…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/8-endings-that-sound-like-shun/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/8-endings-that-sound-like-shun/)