--- title: Before -able the e of the root usually drops (adore, adorable), but… — Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness, -ment · tree and pragmatics description: Before -able the e of the root usually drops (adore, adorable), but it stays after a soft c or g to keep them soft: notice, noticeable; change, changeable. Who acts: e. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (e), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:009-suffixes-ous-ly-ful-less-ness-ment.lesson:13 # text = Before -able the e of the root usually drops (adore, adorable), but it stays after a soft c or g to keep them soft: notice, noticeable; change, changeable. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 009-suffixes-ous-ly-ful-less-ness-ment.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Before before ADP IN _ 3 case _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:case 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 3 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:amod 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 e e NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obl 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 root root NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 usually usually ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 drops drop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 12 adore adore VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:xcomp 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 adorable adorable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 15 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 20 after after ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 c c NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 g g NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ _ 30 : : PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 31 notice notice NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 parataxis _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 noticeable noticeable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 changeable changeable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 conj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drop** | present | the e of the root | | | able | | usually *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme before able=Trajectory | | 2 | **adore** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **stay** | present | e | | | | after a soft c or g | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **keep** | to-infinitive | e *not said here* | c | | | | soft *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | 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:009-suffixes-ous-ly-ful-less-ness-ment.lesson:13`. **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 ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/9-suffixes-ous-ly-ful-less-ness-ment/10/) - next →: [Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/9-suffixes-ous-ly-ful-less-ness-ment/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/9-suffixes-ous-ly-ful-less-ness-ment/)