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title: -able usually follows a whole word (enjoyable); -ible often follows… — Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness, -ment · tree and pragmatics
description: -able usually follows a whole word (enjoyable); -ible often follows a part that is not a word on its own (horrible, visible). Who acts: able, ible, part. 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 a
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# Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness, -ment, sentence 25

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-able usually follows a whole word (enjoyable); -ible often follows a part that is not a word on its own (horrible, visible).

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**Who acts:** able, ible, part · **What happens:** follow, not be · **To what, where:** whole word, part, word, own

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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 (able, ible, part), 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:25
# text = -able usually follows a whole word (enjoyable); -ible often follows a part that is not a word on its own (horrible, visible).
# 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	-	-	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
2	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
3	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
9	enjoyable	enjoyable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
13	ible	ible	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
14	often	often	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	acl:relcl	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	nmod	_	_
26	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
27	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	parataxis	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	visible	visible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | present | able | a whole word |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | present | ible | a part |  |  |  | often *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | present | a part | a word |  | ible's own |  |  | 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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**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:25`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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