--- title: Ava reads "The knight rode at night" and frowns: out loud the two wo… — Homophones: words that sound the same · tree and pragmatics description: Ava reads "The knight rode at night" and frowns: out loud the two words are twins, but on paper they wear different clothes, and the meaning tells you which one to write. Who acts: Ava, knight, two words, words. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ava, knight, two words, words), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:027-homophones-words-that-sound-the-same.lesson:1 # text = Ava reads "The knight rode at night" and frowns: out loud the two words are twins, but on paper they wear different clothes, and the meaning tells you which one to write. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 027-homophones-words-that-sound-the-same.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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Ava Ava PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 reads read VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 4 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 knight knight NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 rode ride VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 7 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 frowns frown VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 13 out out ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod 14 loud loud ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 twins twin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 parataxis _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 wear wear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 26 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 25 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:det 31 meaning meaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 iobj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:iobj 34 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 35 det _ _ 35 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:obj 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 write write VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:acl 38 . . 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 | **read** | present | Ava | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **ride** *in a quote* | past | the knight | | | | night | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **frown** | present | Ava *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | the two words | twins | | | | loud *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **wear** | present | words *= word* | different clothes | | paper | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent clothes=Source | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the meaning | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 7 | **write** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | which one | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | 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:language:027-homophones-words-that-sound-the-same.lesson:1`. **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 ×5, 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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