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title: The /shun/ ending is spelled -tion, -sion, -ssion or -cian, almost n… — Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion, -sion, -s… · tree and pragmatics
description: The /shun/ ending is spelled -tion, -sion, -ssion or -cian, almost never «shun». 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.
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# Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion, -sion, -ssion, -cian, sentence 16

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The /shun/ ending is spelled -tion, -sion, -ssion or -cian, almost never «shun».

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**What happens:** spell, not shun · **To what, where:** shun ending · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: 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:16
# text = The /shun/ ending is spelled -tion, -sion, -ssion or -cian, almost never «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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	/	/	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	shun	shun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	/	/	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	ending	ending	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	spelled	spell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
9	tion	tion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
12	sion	sion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
15	ssion	ssion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	cian	cian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
23	shun	shun	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
24	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spell** | present · passive |  | the shun ending |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **shun** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | almost *property* | vn avoid-52 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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:16`.

**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 ×2. **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/).

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