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title: Words ending in -ic add -ally: basically, dramatically; «publicly» i… — Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness, -ment · tree and pragmatics
description: Words ending in -ic add -ally: basically, dramatically; «publicly» is the exception. Who acts: Words. 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.
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# Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness, -ment, sentence 21

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Words ending in -ic add -ally: basically, dramatically; «publicly» is the exception.

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**Who acts:** Words · **What happens:** end, add, be · **To what, where:** ic, ally, exception

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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 (Words), 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:21
# text = Words ending in -ic add -ally: basically, dramatically; «publicly» is the exception.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	ending	end	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
5	ic	ic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	_
6	add	add	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
8	ally	ally	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
10	basically	basically	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	dramatically	dramatically	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
14	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	publicly	publicly	ADV	RB	_	19	nsubj	_	_
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	exception	exception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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** | gerund | Words *not said here* |  |  | ic |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | Words | ally and the exception |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ally=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | the exception |  |  |  | basically, dramatically *property* | tree rules |

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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): R6-punct-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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