Homophones and near-homophones, sentence 34
The sentence around a homophone, its context, tells you which spelling is needed.
Who acts: sentence · What happens: tell, need · To what, where: you, spelling · 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 (sentence), 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 sentence | det |
| 2 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tells | nsubj |
| 3 | around | around | ADP | _ | 5 homophone | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 homophone | det |
| 5 | homophone | homophone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sentence | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 context | punct |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 context | nmod:poss |
| 8 | context | context | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 homophone | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 sentence | punct |
| 10 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 tells | iobj |
| 12 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 13 spelling | det |
| 13 | spelling | spelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 needed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 needed | aux:pass |
| 15 | needed | need | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 tells | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 tells | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | the sentence around a homophone | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | need | present · passive | which spelling | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme |
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:34.
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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