--- title: «Argue» drops its e in «argument» and «arguing». — Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness, -ment · tree and pragmatics description: «Argue» drops its e in «argument» and «arguing». 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/23/) [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/) / 23 # Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness, -ment, sentence 23 «Argue» drops its e in «argument» and «arguing». **What happens:** argue, drop · **To what, where:** e, argument 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: 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:23 # text = «Argue» drops its e in «argument» and «arguing». # 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 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Argue argue VERB VB _ 4 nsubj _ _ 3 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 drops drop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 e e NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 argument argument NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 13 arguing argue VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ _ 14 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 . . 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 | **argue** *speech: disagree* *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **drop** | present | | movement's e | | argument | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent e=Theme in argument=Destination | | 3 | **argue** *speech: disagree* *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:23`. **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. **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…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/9-suffixes-ous-ly-ful-less-ness-ment/22/) - next →: [Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/9-suffixes-ous-ly-ful-less-ness-ment/24/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/9-suffixes-ous-ly-ful-less-ness-ment/)