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title: -cian is used for people's jobs from words ending in c: musician, ma… — Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion, -sion, -s… · tree and pragmatics
description: -cian is used for people's jobs from words ending in c: musician, magician, electrician. Who acts: words, people. 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
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# Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion, -sion, -ssion, -cian, sentence 21

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-cian is used for people's jobs from words ending in c: musician, magician, electrician.

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**Who acts:** words, people · **What happens:** use, end, job · **To what, where:** cian, words, c

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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: who acts (words, people), 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:21
# text = -cian is used for people's jobs from words ending in c: musician, magician, electrician.
# 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
1	-	-	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	_
2	cian	cian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod
11	ending	end	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	c	c	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	musician	musician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	electrician	electrician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **use** | present · passive |  | cian |  | words |  | for people's jobs | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for job=Eventuality |
| 2 | **end** | gerund | words *not said here* |  |  | c  musician and magician and electrician |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **job** |  | people |  |  |  |  |  | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=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:21`.

**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. **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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