Homophones: words that sound the same, sentence 9
"Heard" is the past of hear; "herd" is a group of animals like cows; "heard" has "ear" in it.
Who acts: Heard, herd · What happens: be, have · To what, where: past, group, ear, herd
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 (Heard, herd), 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 Heard | punct |
| 2 | Heard | heard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 past | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Heard | punct |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 past | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 past | det |
| 6 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 hear | case |
| 8 | hear | hear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 past | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 group | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 herd | punct |
| 11 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 group | nsubj |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 herd | punct |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 group | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 group | det |
| 15 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 past | parataxis |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 animals | case |
| 17 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 group | nmod |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 cows | case |
| 19 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 animals | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 heard | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 heard | punct |
| 22 | heard | hear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 has | nsubj |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 heard | punct |
| 24 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 past | parataxis |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 ear | punct |
| 26 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 has | obj |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 ear | punct |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 has | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 past | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- other
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Heard | the past | of hear | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | herd | a group | of animals like cows | tree rules | |||
| 3 | have | present | heard | ear | herd | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=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:9.
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): 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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