--- title: "Selfie" is "self" plus the friendly ending "-ie", a favourite in Au… — Building words: prefixes, suffixes and compounds · tree and pragmatics description: "Selfie" is "self" plus the friendly ending "-ie", a favourite in Australian English (brekkie for breakfast, barbie for barbecue); it was Oxford Dictionaries' Word of the Year in 2013. Who acts: Selfie. 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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 (Selfie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:037-building-words-prefixes-suffixes-and-compounds.lesson:15 # text = "Selfie" is "self" plus the friendly ending "-ie", a favourite in Australian English (brekkie for breakfast, barbie for barbecue); it was Oxford Dictionaries' Word of the Year in 2013. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 037-building-words-prefixes-suffixes-and-compounds.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Selfie Selfie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 self self NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 plus plus CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 ending ending NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 14 ie ie NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:parataxis 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 favourite favourite NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:appos|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 Australian Australian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obl 22 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 23 brekkie brekkie NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 breakfast breakfast NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 barbie barbie NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:appos 28 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 barbecue barbecue NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 Oxford Oxford PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 Dictionaries dictionary PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 37 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=37:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 36 ' 's PART POS _ 35 case _ _ 37 Word Word PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 Year Year PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 2013 2013 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 37 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:obl 43 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: other - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Selfie | self plus the friendly ending | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | past | | | | | | 's Oxford Dictionaries | tree rules | 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:language:037-building-words-prefixes-suffixes-and-compounds.lesson:15`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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: [Building words: prefixes, suffixes and…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/37-building-words-prefixes-suffixes-and-compounds/14/) - next →: [Words that changed their meaning, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/38-words-that-changed-their-meaning/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/37-building-words-prefixes-suffixes-and-compounds/)