--- title: Onomatopoeia is spelled O-N-O-M-A-T-O-P-O-E-I-A; it comes from Greek… — Olympiad: the Spelling Bee · tree and pragmatics description: Onomatopoeia is spelled O-N-O-M-A-T-O-P-O-E-I-A; it comes from Greek words meaning "making names", and it means a word that sounds like what it means. Who acts: M A T, Onomatopoeia, Greek words, word. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: the Spelling Bee» of the english course of Mova's primary schoo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/55-olympiad-the-spelling-bee/8/) [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/) / [Olympiad: the Spelling Bee](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/55-olympiad-the-spelling-bee/) / 8 # Olympiad: the Spelling Bee, sentence 8 Onomatopoeia is spelled O-N-O-M-A-T-O-P-O-E-I-A; it comes from Greek words meaning "making names", and it means a word that sounds like what it means. **Who acts:** M A T, Onomatopoeia, Greek words, word · **What happens:** spell, come, mean, make, sound · **To what, where:** Onomatopoeia, Greek words, names, word · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: the Spelling Bee» 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 (M A T, Onomatopoeia, Greek words, word), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:055-olympiad-the-spelling-bee.lesson:8 # text = Onomatopoeia is spelled O-N-O-M-A-T-O-P-O-E-I-A; it comes from Greek words meaning "making names", and it means a word that sounds like what it means. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 055-olympiad-the-spelling-bee.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Onomatopoeia onomatopoeia NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 spelled spell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 O O PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 6 N N PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ _ 8 O O ADP IN Abbr=Yes 14 case _ _ 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ _ 10 M M NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ _ 12 A A NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ _ 14 T t NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:agent _ _ 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ _ 16 O O ADP IN Abbr=Yes 22 case _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 18 P p NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ _ 20 O O ADP IN Abbr=Yes 22 case _ _ 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ _ 22 E E PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 conj _ _ 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_ 26 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 30 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 Greek Greek ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 33 meaning mean VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 32 acl _ _ 34 " " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ _ 35 making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:conj 36 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 44 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 45 nsubj _ _ 45 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 acl:relcl _ _ 46 like like SCONJ IN _ 49 mark _ _ 47 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 49 obj _ _ 48 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 49 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 advcl _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spell** | present · passive | a M A T | Onomatopoeia | | | | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 2 | **come** | present | Onomatopoeia | | | Greek words | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from word=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **mean** | gerund | Greek words *not said here* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **make** *in a quote* | gerund | | names | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset name=Product | | 5 | **mean** | present | Onomatopoeia | a word | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | | 6 | **sound** | present | a word | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **mean** | present | Onomatopoeia | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | 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:055-olympiad-the-spelling-bee.lesson:8`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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: [Olympiad: the Spelling Bee, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/55-olympiad-the-spelling-bee/7/) - next →: [Olympiad: the Spelling Bee, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/55-olympiad-the-spelling-bee/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/55-olympiad-the-spelling-bee/)