--- title: When stuck, ask: what is the root, how does it end, and is it a pers… — Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion, -sion, -s… · tree and pragmatics description: When stuck, ask: what is the root, how does it end, and is it a person? Who acts: you, word. 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/15/) [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/) / 15 # Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion, -sion, -ssion, -cian, sentence 15 When stuck, ask: what is the root, how does it end, and is it a person? **Who acts:** you, word · **What happens:** ask, be, end · **To what, where:** root, person 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 (you, 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:15 # text = When stuck, ask: what is the root, how does it end, and is it a person? # 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 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 stuck stuck ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advcl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 6 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 9 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 root root NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 12 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 end end VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=14:punct 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 21 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: wh-question - act: ask - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | | the root | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **end** | present · do-support | word | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **is a** | present | word | a person | | | | | 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:15`. **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. **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,…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/8-endings-that-sound-like-shun/13/) - next →: [Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion,…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/8-endings-that-sound-like-shun/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/8-endings-that-sound-like-shun/)