--- title: Endings that start with a consonant (-less, -ful, -ness, -ment) usua… — Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness, -ment · tree and pragmatics description: Endings that start with a consonant (-less, -ful, -ness, -ment) usually leave the root alone: use, useless; move, movement. Who acts: Endings. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Endings), 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:9 # text = Endings that start with a consonant (-less, -ful, -ness, -ment) usually leave the root alone: use, useless; move, movement. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Endings ending NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 2 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 3 start start VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 consonant consonant NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ _ 9 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 advmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ _ 12 ful ful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 advcl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 15 ness ness NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ _ 18 ment ment NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 19 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 20 usually usually ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 leave leave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 root root NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 alone alone ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 25 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 26 use use NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 parataxis _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 useless useless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:amod 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 move move NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 movement movement NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | present | Endings | | | | | with a consonant | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with consonant=Subeventuality | | 2 | **leave** | present | Endings | the root | | | | alone, usually *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=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:9`. **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): R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/9-suffixes-ous-ly-ful-less-ness-ment/8/) - next →: [Suffixes -ous, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/9-suffixes-ous-ly-ful-less-ness-ment/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/9-suffixes-ous-ly-ful-less-ness-ment/)