Homophones and near-homophones, sentence 5
The test is simple: can you say «they are» instead?
Who acts: test, you, Homophones · What happens: be, say · 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 (test, you, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 test | det |
| 2 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 simple | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 simple | cop |
| 4 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 say | aux |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 say | nsubj |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 simple | parataxis |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 are | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 are | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 say | ccomp |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 are | punct |
| 13 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 8 say | advmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 simple | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the test | simple property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | can | you | instead property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | does in a quote | present | Homophones = homophone | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:5.
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): R8-pos-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.
See the release 0.4.
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