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title: Root ends in ss: -ssion (discuss, discussion; express, expression). — Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion, -sion, -s… · tree and pragmatics
description: Root ends in ss: -ssion (discuss, discussion; express, expression). Who acts: Root, ssion. 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 5

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Root ends in ss: -ssion (discuss, discussion; express, expression).

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**Who acts:** Root, ssion · **What happens:** end, discuss · **To what, where:** ss

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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 (Root, ssion), 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:5
# text = Root ends in ss: -ssion (discuss, discussion; express, expression).
# 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): no change
1	Root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ends	end	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	ss	ss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
7	ssion	ssion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
9	discuss	discuss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	discussion	discussion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	express	express	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **end** | present | Root |  |  | ss |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **discuss** *speech: other* | infinitive | ssion and discussion *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V»: 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:5`.

**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): no change. **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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