--- title: Before -able, a final e usually drops (adorable) but stays after sof… — Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness, -ment · tree and pragmatics description: Before -able, a final e usually drops (adorable) but stays after soft c or g (noticeable, changeable). Who acts: final e. 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 claus --- [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/24/) [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/) / 24 # Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness, -ment, sentence 24 Before -able, a final e usually drops (adorable) but stays after soft c or g (noticeable, changeable). **Who acts:** final e · **What happens:** drop, stay · **To what, where:** adorable, able 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 (final 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:24 # text = Before -able, a final e usually drops (adorable) but stays after soft c or g (noticeable, 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): no change 1 Before before ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 3 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 final final ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 e e NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 usually usually ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 drops drop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 11 adorable adorable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 obj _ _ 12 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 15 after after ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 c c NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 g g NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 21 noticeable noticeable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 changeable changeable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ _ 24 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drop** | present | a final e | adorable | | able | | usually *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent adorable=Theme before able=Destination | | 2 | **stay** | present | a final e *not said here* | | | | after soft c or g | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:24`. **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): no change. **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…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/9-suffixes-ous-ly-ful-less-ness-ment/23/) - next →: [Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness…, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/9-suffixes-ous-ly-ful-less-ness-ment/25/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/9-suffixes-ous-ly-ful-less-ness-ment/)