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title: Some prefixes and their meanings: re- (again), un- (not, or undo), d… — Building words: prefixes, suffixes and compounds · tree and pragmatics
description: Some prefixes and their meanings: re- (again), un- (not, or undo), dis- (not, or the opposite), pre- (before), mis- (wrongly). Who acts: prefix. A sentence of the lesson «Building words: prefixes, suffixes and compounds» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# Building words: prefixes, suffixes and compounds, sentence 6

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Some prefixes and their meanings: re- (again), un- (not, or undo), dis- (not, or the opposite), pre- (before), mis- (wrongly).

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**Who acts:** prefix · **What happens:** not undo, mean · **To what, where:** dis

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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 (prefix), 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:6
# text = Some prefixes and their meanings: re- (again), un- (not, or undo), dis- (not, or the opposite), pre- (before), mis- (wrongly).
# 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	prefixes	prefix	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	meanings	meaning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	re	re	ADP	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
10	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	conj	_	_
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	undo	undo	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:acl:relcl
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	pre	pre	ADV	AFX	_	2	amod	_	_
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	_
34	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	35	punct	_	_
35	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	32	goeswith	_	_
36	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	35	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	mis	mis	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	_
40	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	41	punct	_	_
41	wrongly	wrongly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	38	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis
42	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	41	punct	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **undo** | infinitive |  | dis |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** |  | prefix |  |  |  |  |  | nom meaning «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:6`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-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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