Homophones and near-homophones, sentence 31

Homophones stick best when you learn them inside sentences, like «I see the sea».

Who acts: Homophones, you, shop signs · What happens: stick, learn, see · To what, where: Homophones, sentences, sea · 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 (Homophones, you, shop signs), 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 stick	nsubj
2	stick	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	2 stick	advmod
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 learn	advmod
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 learn	nsubj
6	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 stick	advcl
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 learn	obj
8	inside	inside	ADP	_	9 sentences	case
9	sentences	sentence	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 learn	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
11	like	like	SCONJ	_	14 see	mark
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 see	nsubj
14	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 stick	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sea	det
16	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 see	obj
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stick	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stick	present	Homophones			well property	tree rules
2	learn	present	you	Homophones = homophone	sentences		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
3	see in a quote	present	shop signs = sign	the sea			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sea=Stimulus

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:31.

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): no change. 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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