Homophones: words that sound the same, sentence 1

Ava reads "The knight rode at night" and frowns: out loud the two words are twins, but on paper they wear different clothes, and the meaning tells you which one to write.

Who acts: Ava, knight, two words, words, meaning · What happens: read, ride, frown, be, wear, tell · To what, where: twins, different clothes, paper, you, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Homophones: words that sound the same» of the language 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 (Ava, knight, two words, words), 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	Ava	Ava	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reads	nsubj
2	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 rode	punct
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 knight	det
5	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rode	nsubj
6	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 reads	ccomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 night	case
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rode	obl
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 rode	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 frowns	cc
11	frowns	frown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 reads	conj
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 twins	punct
13	out	out	ADV	_	14 loud	advmod
14	loud	loud	ADV	_	19 twins	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 words	det
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 words	nummod
17	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 twins	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 twins	cop
19	twins	twin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 reads	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 wear	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 wear	cc
22	on	on	ADP	_	23 paper	case
23	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wear	obl
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 wear	nsubj
25	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 twins	conj
26	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 clothes	amod
27	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	25 wear	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 tells	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 tells	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 meaning	det
31	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tells	nsubj
32	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 wear	conj
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 tells	iobj
34	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	35 one	det
35	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 write	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 write	mark
37	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 tells	ccomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reads	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present	Ava						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	ride in a quote	past	the knight				night		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	frown	present	Ava not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	the two words	twins				loud property	tree rules
5	wear	present	words = word	different clothes		paper			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent clothes=Source
6	tell speech: assert	present	the meaning		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
7	write not said to happen	to-infinitive		which one					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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:language:027-homophones-words-that-sound-the-same.lesson:1.

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): R5-strong ×5, 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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