Homophones: words that sound the same, sentence 12
"Buy" means pay for, "by" means near or through, and "bye" means goodbye.
Who acts: Buy, bye · What happens: mean, pay · To what, where: goodbye · 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 (Buy, bye), 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 Buy | punct |
| 2 | Buy | buy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Buy | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 means | ccomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 pay | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 means | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 by | punct |
| 9 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 11 means | nsubj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 by | punct |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 means | parataxis |
| 12 | near | near | ADV | _ | 11 means | advmod |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 through | cc |
| 14 | through | through | ADV | _ | 12 near | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 means | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 means | cc |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 bye | punct |
| 18 | bye | bye | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 means | nsubj |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 bye | punct |
| 20 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 means | parataxis |
| 21 | goodbye | goodbye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 means | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Buy | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | pay | infinitive | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | mean | present | near property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | mean | present | bye | goodbye | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goodbye=Topic |
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:12.
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. 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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