--- title: Many -tion words sound formal; use them when they are clearer, not j… — Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion, -sion, -s… · tree and pragmatics description: Many -tion words sound formal; use them when they are clearer, not just to sound clever. Who acts: tion words, you, spellings. 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 pragma --- [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/26/) [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/) / 26 # Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion, -sion, -ssion, -cian, sentence 26 Many -tion words sound formal; use them when they are clearer, not just to sound clever. **Who acts:** tion words, you, spellings · **What happens:** sound, use, be, not sound · **To what, where:** spellings 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 (tion words, you, spellings), 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:26 # text = Many -tion words sound formal; use them when they are clearer, not just to sound clever. # 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 3 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:amod 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 3 tion tion NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 sound sound VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 6 formal formal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 8 use use VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 when when SCONJ WRB _ 13 mark _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 clearer clear ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 advcl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 16 just just ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 sound sound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 19 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sound** | present | tion words | | | | | formal *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **use** | imperative | you *not said here* | spellings *= spelling* | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 3 | **is** | present | spellings *= spelling* | | | | | clear *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **sound** | to-infinitive | spellings *= spelling* *not said here* | | | | | clever *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:26`. **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,…, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/8-endings-that-sound-like-shun/25/) - next →: [Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion,…, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/8-endings-that-sound-like-shun/27/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/8-endings-that-sound-like-shun/)