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title: English also glues whole words together, "book" + "keeper" = "bookke… — Building words: prefixes, suffixes and compounds · tree and pragmatics
description: English also glues whole words together, "book" + "keeper" = "bookkeeper", and blends bits of words, "hungry" + "angry" = "hangry", the grumpy feeling right before lunch. Who acts: English. A sentence of the lesson «Building words: prefixes, suffixes and compounds» of the language course of Mova's p
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# Building words: prefixes, suffixes and compounds, sentence 2

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English also glues whole words together, "book" + "keeper" = "bookkeeper", and blends bits of words, "hungry" + "angry" = "hangry", the grumpy feeling right before lunch.

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**Who acts:** English · **What happens:** glue, blend · **To what, where:** whole words, keeper

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Building words: prefixes, suffixes and compounds» of the language 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 (English), 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:2
# text = English also glues whole words together, "book" + "keeper" = "bookkeeper", and blends bits of words, "hungry" + "angry" = "hangry", the grumpy feeling right before lunch.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	glues	glue	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	together	together	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	13	cc	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:case
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
13	keeper	keeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	17	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
17	bookkeeper	bookkeeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	blends	blend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
27	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	parataxis	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
29	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	21	advmod	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	_
31	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:parataxis
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
33	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	35	punct	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	_
35	hangry	hangry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
41	right	right	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
42	before	before	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21: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 | **glue** | present | English | whole words |  |  |  | together *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |
| 2 | **blend** | present | English *not said here* | keeper |  |  |  | the grumpy feeling before lunch *obl* | 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:language:037-building-words-prefixes-suffixes-and-compounds.lesson:2`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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