--- title: "Buy" means pay for, "by" means near or through, and "bye" means goo… — Homophones: words that sound the same · tree and pragmatics description: "Buy" means pay for, "by" means near or through, and "bye" means goodbye. Who acts: Buy, bye. 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 every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/27-homophones-words-that-sound-the-same/12/) [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/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / [Homophones: words that sound the same](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/27-homophones-words-that-sound-the-same/) / 12 # Homophones: words that sound the same, sentence 12 "Buy" means pay for, "by" means near or through, and "bye" means goodbye. **Who acts:** Buy, bye · **What happens:** mean, pay · **To what, where:** goodbye · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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: who acts (Buy, bye), 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:12 # text = "Buy" means pay for, "by" means near or through, and "bye" means goodbye. # 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 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Buy buy NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 5 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 9 by by SCONJ IN _ 11 nsubj _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 12 near near ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 through through ADV RB _ 12 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 18 bye bye ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 nsubj _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 21 goodbye goodbye NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Buy | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **pay** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **mean** | present | | | | | | near *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **mean** | present | bye | goodbye | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goodbye=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:language:027-homophones-words-that-sound-the-same.lesson:12`. **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. **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: [Homophones: words that sound the same, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/27-homophones-words-that-sound-the-same/11/) - next →: [Homophones: words that sound the same, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/27-homophones-words-that-sound-the-same/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/27-homophones-words-that-sound-the-same/)