--- title: Before -ous, -our usually loses its u: humour, humorous; glamour, gl… — Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness, -ment · tree and pragmatics description: Before -ous, -our usually loses its u: humour, humorous; glamour, glamorous. Who acts: our. A sentence of the lesson «Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness, -ment» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/9-suffixes-ous-ly-ful-less-ness-ment/18/) [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/) / [Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/9-suffixes-ous-ly-ful-less-ness-ment/) / 18 # Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness, -ment, sentence 18 Before -ous, -our usually loses its u: humour, humorous; glamour, glamorous. **Who acts:** our · **What happens:** lose · **To what, where:** u This is a sentence of the lesson «Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness, -ment» 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 (our), 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:18 # text = Before -ous, -our usually loses its u: humour, humorous; glamour, glamorous. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Before before ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 3 ous ous NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 - - PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:HYPH:_ 6 our our NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 usually usually ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 loses lose VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 u u NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 12 humour humour NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 humorous humorous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:appos 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 glamour glamour NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 glamorous glamorous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lose** | present | our | ous's u and glamour | | | before ous | usually *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent u=Eventuality | 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:18`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/9-suffixes-ous-ly-ful-less-ness-ment/16/) - next →: [Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/9-suffixes-ous-ly-ful-less-ness-ment/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/9-suffixes-ous-ly-ful-less-ness-ment/)