Homophones: words that sound the same, sentence 3

Homophones also depend on accent: a pair that sounds the same in New York may sound different in London or Glasgow, and both accents are fine.

Who acts: Homophones, pair, accents · What happens: depend, sound, be · To what, where: same, New York

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 (Homophones, pair, accents), 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	Homophones	homophone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 depend	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	3 depend	advmod
3	depend	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 accent	case
5	accent	accent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 depend	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 depend	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pair	det
8	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sound	nsubj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 sounds	nsubj
10	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 pair	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 same	det
12	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sounds	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 York	case
14	New	New	PROPN	_	15 York	flat
15	York	York	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 sounds	obl
16	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 sound	aux
17	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 depend	parataxis
18	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sound	xcomp
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 London	case
20	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 different	obl
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 Glasgow	cc
22	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 London	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fine	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 fine	cc
25	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	26 accents	det
26	accents	accent	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 fine	nsubj
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 fine	cop
28	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 depend	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 depend	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	depend	present	Homophones			on accent	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on accent=Theme
2	sound	present	a pair	the same	New York		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location same=Theme
3	sound	may	a pair			different property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	is	present	both accents			fine property	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:3.

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): no change. 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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