--- title: «To» shows direction or comes before a verb; «too» means also or ver… — Homophones and near-homophones · tree and pragmatics description: «To» shows direction or comes before a verb; «too» means also or very; «two» is the number 2. Who acts: 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 pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/11-homophones-and-near-homophones/23/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Homophones and near-homophones](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/11-homophones-and-near-homophones/) / 23 # Homophones and near-homophones, sentence 23 «To» shows direction or comes before a verb; «too» means also or very; «two» is the number 2. **Who acts:** two · **What happens:** show, come, mean, be · **To what, where:** direction, verb, number 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 (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:23 # text = «To» shows direction or comes before a verb; «too» means also or very; «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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 To to PART TO _ 4 nsubj _ _ 3 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 4 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 direction direction NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 8 before before ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 verb verb NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 13 too too ADV RB _ 15 nsubj _ _ 14 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 16 also also ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 very very ADV RB _ 16 conj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 20 « « PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 21 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nsubj _ _ 22 » » PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 26 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 flat _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **show** | present | | direction | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent direction=Recipient | | 2 | **come** | present | | | | a verb | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before verb=Location | | 3 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | two | the number | | | | | tree rules | 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:23`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-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: [Homophones and near-homophones, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/11-homophones-and-near-homophones/21/) - next →: [Homophones and near-homophones, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/11-homophones-and-near-homophones/27/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/11-homophones-and-near-homophones/)