--- title: When the ending sounds softer, /zhun/ instead of /shun/, it is nearl… — Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion, -sion, -s… · tree and pragmatics description: When the ending sounds softer, /zhun/ instead of /shun/, it is nearly always -sion: television, division, decision, explosion. Who acts: ending. 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 t --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion, -sion, -ssion, -cian, sentence 8 When the ending sounds softer, /zhun/ instead of /shun/, it is nearly always -sion: television, division, decision, explosion. **Who acts:** ending · **What happens:** sound, shun, be · **To what, where:** sion 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 (ending), 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:8 # text = When the ending sounds softer, /zhun/ instead of /shun/, it is nearly always -sion: television, division, decision, explosion. # 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 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 ending ending NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 5 softer soft ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 xcomp _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 7 / / SYM , _ 8 cc _ _ 8 zhun zhun NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 9 / / SYM , _ 8 punct _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:cc 10 instead instead ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 10 fixed _ _ 12 / / PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 shun shun VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 14 / / PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 18 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 19 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 21 advmod _ _ 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 21 sion sion NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 22 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 23 television television NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 division division NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 decision decision NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 explosion explosion NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sound** | present | the ending | | | | | soft *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **shun** | infinitive | the ending *not said here* | | | | | instead *property* | vn avoid-52 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | ending | sion | | | | always, nearly *property* | tree rules | 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:8`. **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/). - ← previous: [Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion,…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/8-endings-that-sound-like-shun/7/) - next →: [Endings that sound like «shun»: -tion,…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/8-endings-that-sound-like-shun/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/8-endings-that-sound-like-shun/)