Homophones and near-homophones, sentence 0
Homophones are words that sound the same but are spelled differently and mean different things: see and sea, bear and bare, piece and peace.
Who acts: Homophones, words, different things · What happens: be, sound, spell, mean, see, bear · To what, where: words, same, different things
This is a sentence of the lesson «Homophones and near-homophones» 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 (Homophones, words, different things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Homophones | homophone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 words | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 words | cop |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 sound | nsubj |
| 5 | sound | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 words | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 same | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sound | obj |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 spelled | cc |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 spelled | aux:pass |
| 10 | spelled | spell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 sound | conj |
| 11 | differently | differently | ADV | _ | 10 spelled | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 mean | cc |
| 13 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 spelled | conj |
| 14 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 things | amod |
| 15 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 mean | obj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 things | acl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sea | cc |
| 19 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 see | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bear | punct |
| 21 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 see | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 bare | cc |
| 23 | bare | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 bear | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 piece | punct |
| 25 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 see | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 peace | cc |
| 27 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 piece | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 words | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Homophones | words | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sound | present | words | the same | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location same=Theme | ||||
| 3 | spell | present · passive | words not said here | differently property | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP» | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | words not said here | different things | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | ||||
| 5 | see | infinitive | different things not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | bear | infinitive | different things not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | bear | infinitive | different things not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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, 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:011-homophones-and-near-homophones.lesson:0.
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 ×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.
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