Homophones: words that sound the same, sentence 6
"Flour" and "flower" were once the same word; "flower" also meant the best part, and flour was the finest part of the ground grain; the spellings split only a few hundred years ago.
Who acts: Flour, flower, spellings · What happens: be, mean, split · To what, where: same word, best part, finest part
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 (Flour, flower, spellings), 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 Flour | punct |
| 2 | Flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 word | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Flour | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 flower | cc |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 flower | punct |
| 6 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Flour | conj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 flower | punct |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 word | cop |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | _ | 12 word | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 word | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 word | amod |
| 12 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 meant | parataxis |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 flower | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 flower | punct |
| 15 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 meant | nsubj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 flower | punct |
| 17 | also | also | ADV | _ | 18 meant | advmod |
| 18 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 part | det |
| 20 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 part | amod |
| 21 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 meant | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 part | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 part | cc |
| 24 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 part | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 part | cop |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 part | det |
| 27 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 part | amod |
| 28 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 meant | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 grain | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 grain | det |
| 31 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 grain | compound |
| 32 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 part | nmod |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 split | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 spellings | det |
| 35 | spellings | spelling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 split | nsubj |
| 36 | split | split | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 meant | parataxis |
| 37 | only | only | ADV | _ | 41 years | advmod |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 years | det |
| 39 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 years | amod |
| 40 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 years | nummod |
| 41 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 42 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 36 split | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 word | 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 | is a | past | Flour and flower | the same word | once property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | mean | past | flower | the best part | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | flour | the finest part | of the ground grain | tree rules | |||
| 4 | split | past | the spellings | ago property | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:6.
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, 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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