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title: "Write" (put down words), "right" (correct, or not left), "rite" (a… — Homophones: words that sound the same · tree and pragmatics
description: "Write" (put down words), "right" (correct, or not left), "rite" (a ceremony) and "wright" (a maker, as in playwright) all sound the same. A sentence of the lesson «Homophones: words that sound the same» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Homophones: words that sound the same, sentence 10

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"Write" (put down words), "right" (correct, or not left), "rite" (a ceremony) and "wright" (a maker, as in playwright) all sound the same.

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**What happens:** write, put down, not leave, sound · **To what, where:** words · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Homophones: words that sound the same» of the language 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: 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:10
# text = "Write" (put down words), "right" (correct, or not left), "rite" (a ceremony) and "wright" (a maker, as in playwright) all sound the same.
# 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Write	write	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	41	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
5	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
6	down	down	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:advcl
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
14	correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
22	rite	rite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
30	wright	wright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
32	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	34	punct	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	maker	maker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	as	as	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	playwright	playwright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:conj
39	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	38	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct
40	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	41	advmod	_	_
41	sound	sound	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=41:obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	41	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **put down** | infinitive |  | words |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent word=Goal |
| 3 | **not** **leave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sound** | present |  |  |  |  |  | same *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:language:027-homophones-words-that-sound-the-same.lesson:10`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4, 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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