Homophones and near-homophones, sentence 2
The meaning of the sentence decides: «I see the sea» needs both.
Who acts: meaning, I · What happens: decide, see, need, mean · To what, where: sea, both, sentence · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (meaning, I), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 meaning | det |
| 2 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 decides | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 sentence | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sentence | det |
| 5 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 meaning | nmod |
| 6 | decides | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 decides | punct |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 see | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 see | nsubj |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 needs | ccomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sea | det |
| 12 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 see | obj |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 see | punct |
| 14 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 decides | ccomp |
| 15 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 needs | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 decides | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | present | the meaning of the sentence | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | see in a quote | present | I | the sea | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sea=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | need | present | both | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | mean | the sentence | nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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: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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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.
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