Homophones: words that sound the same, sentence 13
"Prey" is an animal hunted for food; "pray" means speak to God or a god.
Who acts: pray · What happens: be, mean · To what, where: animal, speak
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 (pray), 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 Prey | punct |
| 2 | Prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 animal | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Prey | punct |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hunted | cop |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 animal | det |
| 6 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 animal | acl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 food | case |
| 9 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hunted | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 pray | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 pray | punct |
| 12 | pray | pray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 means | nsubj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 pray | punct |
| 14 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 animal | parataxis |
| 15 | speak | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 means | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 God | case |
| 17 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 speak | obl |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 god | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 god | det |
| 20 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 God | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 animal | 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 | a animal not said here | for food; hunt property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | pray | speak | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speak=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:13.
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 ×1, 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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