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title: When a word ends in -our, the u usually drops before -ous: humour, h… — Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness, -ment · tree and pragmatics
description: When a word ends in -our, the u usually drops before -ous: humour, humorous; glamour, glamorous. Who acts: word, u. 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 5

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When a word ends in -our, the u usually drops before -ous: humour, humorous; glamour, glamorous.

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**Who acts:** word, u · **What happens:** end, drop · **To what, where:** our, humour, ous

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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 (word, u), 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:5
# text = When a word ends in -our, the u usually drops before -ous: humour, humorous; glamour, glamorous.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ends	end	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
7	our	our	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	u	u	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	drops	drop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	before	before	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
15	ous	ous	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	humour	humour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	humorous	humorous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:amod
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	glamour	glamour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	glamorous	glamorous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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** | present | a word |  |  | our |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **drop** | present | the u | humour and glamour |  | ous |  | usually *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent humour=Theme before ous=Destination |

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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, R7-rel-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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