--- title: Onomatopoeia means words that sound like their meaning, like crash,… — Author's choices: why this word, why this way · tree and pragmatics description: Onomatopoeia means words that sound like their meaning, like crash, bang, buzz and sizzle. Who acts: Onomatopoeia, words, animal. A sentence of the lesson «Author's choices: why this word, why this way» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/21-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way/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/) / [Author's choices: why this word, why t…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/21-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way/) / 23 # Author's choices: why this word, why this way, sentence 23 Onomatopoeia means words that sound like their meaning, like crash, bang, buzz and sizzle. **Who acts:** Onomatopoeia, words, animal · **What happens:** mean, sound · **To what, where:** words This is a sentence of the lesson «Author's choices: why this word, why this way» 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 (Onomatopoeia, words, animal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:021-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way.lesson:23 # text = Onomatopoeia means words that sound like their meaning, like crash, bang, buzz and sizzle. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 021-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Onomatopoeia onomatopoeia NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 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 like like ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 meaning meaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 like like ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 crash crash NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 bang bang NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 buzz buzz NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 sizzle sizzle NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Onomatopoeia | words | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | | 2 | **sound** | present | words | | | | | like animal's meaning like crash and bang and buzz and sizzle | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **mean** | | animal | | | | | like crash and bang and buzz and sizzle | nom meaning «communication transitive»: poss=agent like=obl | 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:021-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way.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): 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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