Homophones: words that sound the same, sentence 2
Many homophones once sounded different, and spelling still remembers the old sounds; the k in "knight" was once said out loud.
Who acts: Many homophones, spelling · What happens: sound, remember, say · To what, where: old sounds, k · 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 (Many homophones, spelling), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 homophones | amod |
| 2 | homophones | homophone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sounded | nsubj |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 sounded | advmod |
| 4 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sounded | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 remembers | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 remembers | cc |
| 8 | spelling | spelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 remembers | nsubj |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 remembers | advmod |
| 10 | remembers | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sounded | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sounds | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sounds | amod |
| 13 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 remembers | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 sounded | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 k | det |
| 16 | k | k | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 said | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 knight | case |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 knight | punct |
| 19 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 k | nmod |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 knight | punct |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 said | aux:pass |
| 22 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 23 said | advmod |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sounded | parataxis |
| 24 | out | out | ADV | _ | 25 loud | advmod |
| 25 | loud | loud | ADV | _ | 23 said | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sounded | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | past | Many homophones | different, once property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | remember | present | spelling | the old sounds | still | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent sound=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past · passive | the k in knight | loud, once property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=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:2.
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. 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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