Homophones: words that sound the same, sentence 11
In many American accents "Mary", "marry" and "merry" sound the same; in many British accents they are three different sounds.
Who acts: Mary · What happens: marry, sound, be · To what, where: same, many American accents, three different sounds
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 (Mary), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 accents | case |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 accents | amod |
| 3 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 accents | amod |
| 4 | accents | accent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sound | obl |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Mary | punct |
| 6 | Mary | Mary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 sound | nsubj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Mary | punct |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 marry | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 marry | punct |
| 10 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 Mary | conj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 marry | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 marry | cc |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 merry | punct |
| 14 | merry | merry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Mary | conj |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 merry | punct |
| 16 | sound | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 same | det |
| 18 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sound | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 accents | punct |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 accents | case |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 accents | amod |
| 22 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 accents | amod |
| 23 | accents | accent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sound | parataxis |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 sounds | nsubj |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 sounds | cop |
| 26 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 sounds | nummod |
| 27 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 sounds | amod |
| 28 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 accents | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 sound | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry in a quote | infinitive | Mary and merry not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | sound | present | Mary and merry | the same | many American accents | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location same=Theme | |||
| 3 | is a | present | Mary | three different sounds | 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:language:027-homophones-words-that-sound-the-same.lesson:11.
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, 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.
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