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title: Root ends in d, de, se or nd: usually -sion (comprehend, comprehensi… — Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion, -sion, -s… · tree and pragmatics
description: Root ends in d, de, se or nd: usually -sion (comprehend, comprehension; expand, expansion; tense, tension). Who acts: Root, sion. 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 pra
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# Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion, -sion, -ssion, -cian, sentence 6

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Root ends in d, de, se or nd: usually -sion (comprehend, comprehension; expand, expansion; tense, tension).

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**Who acts:** Root, sion · **What happens:** end, comprehend, expand · **To what, where:** d

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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, sion), 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:6
# text = Root ends in d, de, se or nd: usually -sion (comprehend, comprehension; expand, expansion; tense, tension).
# 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	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	d	d	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	se	se	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	nd	nd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
14	sion	sion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
16	comprehend	comprehend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	comprehension	comprehension	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	expand	expand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	expansion	expansion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	tense	tense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	tension	tension	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
28	.	.	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 |  |  | d and de and se or nd |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **comprehend** | infinitive | sion and expansion *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **expand** | infinitive | sion and expansion *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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**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.

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