Homophones and near-homophones, sentence 33
«Affect» is usually a verb (to change something); «effect» is usually a noun (the result).
Who acts: Affect, effect · What happens: be, change · To what, where: verb, something, noun
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 (Affect, effect), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 Affect | punct |
| 2 | Affect | affect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 verb | nsubj |
| 3 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 Affect | punct |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 verb | cop |
| 5 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 7 verb | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 verb | det |
| 7 | verb | verb | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 change | punct |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 change | mark |
| 10 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 verb | parataxis |
| 11 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 change | obj |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 change | punct |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 noun | punct |
| 14 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 15 effect | punct |
| 15 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 noun | nsubj |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 15 effect | punct |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 noun | cop |
| 18 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 20 noun | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 noun | det |
| 20 | noun | noun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 verb | parataxis |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 result | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 result | det |
| 23 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 noun | appos |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 result | punct |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 verb | 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 | Affect | a verb | usually property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | change | to-infinitive | something | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | effect | a noun | usually property | tree rules |
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:33.
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): R6-punct-agree ×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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