--- title: Homophones are words that sound the same but are spelled differently… — Homophones and near-homophones · tree and pragmatics description: Homophones are words that sound the same but are spelled differently and mean different things: see and sea, bear and bare, piece and peace. Who acts: Homophones, words, different things. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Homophones, words, different things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:011-homophones-and-near-homophones.lesson:0 # text = Homophones are words that sound the same but are spelled differently and mean different things: see and sea, bear and bare, piece and peace. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 011-homophones-and-near-homophones.lesson # annotation = 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Homophones homophone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 sound sound VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 obj _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 spelled spell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 11 differently differently ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 14 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 17 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 acl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 bear bear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:advcl 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 bare bear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:obj 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Homophones | words | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **sound** | present | words | the same | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location same=Theme | | 3 | **spell** | present · passive | words *not said here* | | | | | differently *property* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP» | | 4 | **mean** | present | words *not said here* | different things | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | | 5 | **see** | infinitive | different things *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **bear** | infinitive | different things *not said here* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **bear** | infinitive | different things *not said here* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:english:011-homophones-and-near-homophones.lesson:0`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [i before e, silent letters and other f…, 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/10-i-before-e-silent-letters-and-famous-traps/28/) - next →: [Homophones and near-homophones, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/11-homophones-and-near-homophones/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/11-homophones-and-near-homophones/)