--- title: In many American accents "Mary", "marry" and "merry" sound the same;… — Homophones: words that sound the same · tree and pragmatics description: In many American accents "Mary", "marry" and "merry" sound the same; in many British accents they are three different sounds. Who acts: Mary. 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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 (Mary), 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:11 # text = In many American accents "Mary", "marry" and "merry" sound the same; in many British accents they are three different sounds. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 accents accent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 Mary Mary PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 merry merry NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 sound sound VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 accents accent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 parataxis _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 25 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 26 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 27 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **marry** *in a quote* | infinitive | Mary and merry *not said here* | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **sound** | present | Mary and merry | the same | | many American accents | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location same=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | Mary | three different sounds | | | | | 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:language:027-homophones-words-that-sound-the-same.lesson:11`. **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): 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. 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