--- title: Chanting lists can help you remember, as Grandma did, but understand… — Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness, -ment · tree and pragmatics description: Chanting lists can help you remember, as Grandma did, but understanding root plus suffix lets you spell words you have never met. Who acts: Chanting lists, you, Grandma, understanding. 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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 (Chanting lists, you, Grandma, understanding), 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:14 # text = Chanting lists can help you remember, as Grandma did, but understanding root plus suffix lets you spell words you have never met. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Chanting Chanting NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 lists list NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 remember remember VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 as as SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 Grandma Grandma PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 10 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc 13 understanding understand VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj 14 root root NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 plus plus CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=14:cc 16 suffix suffix NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 17 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 spell spell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 met meet VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 20 acl:relcl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **help** | can | Chanting lists | you | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 2 | **remember** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **do** | past | Grandma | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **understand** | gerund | | root plus suffix | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer root=Stimulus | | 5 | **let** | present | understanding | you | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **spell** | infinitive | you *not said here* | words | | | | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | | 7 | **not** **meet** | present · perfect | you | words *not said here* | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Co-Agent | 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:14`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. 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