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title: And for «to, too, two»: «to» goes towards or before a verb, «too» me… — Homophones and near-homophones · tree and pragmatics
description: And for «to, too, two»: «to» goes towards or before a verb, «too» means also or very (it has too many o's), «two» is the number 2. Who acts: party, two. A sentence of the lesson «Homophones and near-homophones» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Homophones and near-homophones, sentence 20

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And for «to, too, two»: «to» goes towards or before a verb, «too» means also or very (it has too many o's), «two» is the number 2.

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**Who acts:** party, two · **What happens:** go, mean, have, be · **To what, where:** many o, number

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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 (party, two), 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:20
# text = And for «to, too, two»: «to» goes towards or before a verb, «too» means also or very (it has too many o's), «two» is the number 2.
# 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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	flat	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	flat	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
12	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	14	nsubj	_	_
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	towards	towards	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	before	before	ADP	IN	_	15	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:case
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	verb	verb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct
21	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
22	too	too	ADV	RB	_	24	nsubj	_	_
23	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj
25	also	also	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	conj	_	_
28	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:conj
31	too	too	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	o	o	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
34	's	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
37	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=42:punct
38	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	42	nsubj	_	_
39	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	38	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=38:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
40	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
43	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	42	flat	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	42	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for to too two; towards *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for two=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | present | party | many o |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent o=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | present | two | the number |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:20`.

**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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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/).

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