--- title: Splitting a word into root and suffixes helps you spell words you ha… — Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness, -ment · tree and pragmatics description: Splitting a word into root and suffixes helps you spell words you have never seen. Who acts: Splitting, you. 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/26/) [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/) / 26 # Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness, -ment, sentence 26 Splitting a word into root and suffixes helps you spell words you have never seen. **Who acts:** Splitting, you · **What happens:** split, help, spell, not see · **To what, where:** word, root, you, words 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 (Splitting, you), 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:26 # text = Splitting a word into root and suffixes helps you spell words you have never seen. # 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 Splitting split VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 into into ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 root root NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 suffixes suffix NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 8 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 spell spell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 acl:relcl _ _ 16 . . 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 | **split** | gerund | | a word | | | | into root and suffixes *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent word=Patient into root=Result | | 2 | **help** | present | Splitting | you | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 3 | **spell** | infinitive | you *not said here* | words | | | | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | | 4 | **not** **see** | present · perfect | you | words *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | 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:26`. **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…, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/9-suffixes-ous-ly-ful-less-ness-ment/25/) - next →: [Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness…, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/9-suffixes-ous-ly-ful-less-ness-ment/27/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/9-suffixes-ous-ly-ful-less-ness-ment/)