Homophones and near-homophones, sentence 21
Homophones sound the same but have different spellings and meanings: see/sea, bear/bare, piece/peace.
Who acts: Homophones · What happens: sound, have · To what, where: same, different spellings
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), 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 | 2 sound | nsubj |
| 2 | sound | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 same | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sound | obj |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 have | cc |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sound | conj |
| 7 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 spellings | amod |
| 8 | spellings | spelling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 have | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 meanings | cc |
| 10 | meanings | meaning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 spellings | conj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 see/sea | punct |
| 12 | see/sea | see/sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sound | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bear/bare | punct |
| 14 | bear/bare | bear/bare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 see/sea | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 piece/peace | punct |
| 16 | piece/peace | piece/peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bear/bare | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sound | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | present | Homophones | the same | see/sea and bear/bare obl | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location same=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | present | Homophones not said here | different spellings and meanings | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spelling=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:21.
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): 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.
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