--- title: And adverts sometimes spell words wrong on purpose to look fun («com… — Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion, -sion, -s… · tree and pragmatics description: And adverts sometimes spell words wrong on purpose to look fun («competishun»), so a sign is no proof of a spelling. Who acts: adverts, sign. 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 --- [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/12/) [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/) / 12 # Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion, -sion, -ssion, -cian, sentence 12 And adverts sometimes spell words wrong on purpose to look fun («competishun»), so a sign is no proof of a spelling. **Who acts:** adverts, sign · **What happens:** spell, look, be · **To what, where:** words, purpose, proof 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 (adverts, sign), 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:12 # text = And adverts sometimes spell words wrong on purpose to look fun («competishun»), so a sign is no proof of a spelling. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 adverts advert NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 4 advmod _ _ 4 spell spell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 11 fun fun ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 13 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 competishun competishun NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 23 det _ _ 23 proof proof NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 spelling spelling NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spell** | present | adverts | words | | purpose | | sometimes *property* | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme on purpose=Destination | | 2 | **look** | to-infinitive | adverts *not said here* | | | | | fun *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **is a** | present | a sign | no proof | | | | of a spelling | 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:12`. **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): R7-rel-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,…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/8-endings-that-sound-like-shun/11/) - next →: [Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion,…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/8-endings-that-sound-like-shun/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/8-endings-that-sound-like-shun/)