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title: Grown-ups mix these up too; shop signs saying «your welcome» are eve… — Homophones and near-homophones · tree and pragmatics
description: Grown-ups mix these up too; shop signs saying «your welcome» are everywhere. Who acts: Grown ups, shop signs, your. A sentence of the lesson «Homophones and near-homophones» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Homophones and near-homophones, sentence 16

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Grown-ups mix these up too; shop signs saying «your welcome» are everywhere.

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**Who acts:** Grown ups, shop signs, your · **What happens:** grow, mix up, say, be, welcome · **To what, where:** these · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Homophones and near-homophones» of the english 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 (Grown ups, shop signs, your), 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:16
# text = Grown-ups mix these up too; shop signs saying «your welcome» are everywhere.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	_
3	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	mix	mix	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:compound:prt
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
11	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	«	«	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	welcome	welcome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	conj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **mix up** | present | Grown ups | these |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | shop signs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | « your welcome | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | shop signs |  |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **welcome** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom welcome «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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:16`.

**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. **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/).

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