Homophones: words that sound the same, sentence 14
"Stationery" with an e means paper, pens and envelopes ("e for envelopes"); "stationary" with an a means standing still.
Who acts: Stationery, stationary · What happens: mean, means, standing · To what, where: paper
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 (Stationery, stationary), 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 Stationery | punct |
| 2 | Stationery | stationery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stationery | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 e | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 e | det |
| 6 | e | e | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Stationery | nmod |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pens | punct |
| 10 | pens | pen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 paper | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 envelopes | cc |
| 12 | envelopes | envelope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pens | conj |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 e | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 e | punct |
| 15 | e | e | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pens | flat |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 envelopes | case |
| 17 | envelopes | envelope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 e | nmod |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 e | punct |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 e | punct |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 stationary | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 stationary | punct |
| 22 | stationary | stationary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 means | nsubj |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 stationary | punct |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 a | case |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 means | det |
| 26 | a | a | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stationary | nmod |
| 27 | means | means | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 means | parataxis |
| 28 | standing | standing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 means | acl |
| 29 | still | still | ADV | _ | 28 standing | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Stationery with a e | paper and pens and envelopes | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=Topic | ||||
| 2 | means | present | stationary with a | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | standing | gerund | still | 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:14.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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