--- title: "Prey" is an animal hunted for food; "pray" means speak to God or a… — Homophones: words that sound the same · tree and pragmatics description: "Prey" is an animal hunted for food; "pray" means speak to God or a god. Who acts: pray. 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/13/) [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/) / 13 # Homophones: words that sound the same, sentence 13 "Prey" is an animal hunted for food; "pray" means speak to God or a god. **Who acts:** pray · **What happens:** be, mean · **To what, where:** animal, speak 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 (pray), 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:13 # text = "Prey" is an animal hunted for food; "pray" means speak to God or a god. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 hunted hunt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 12 pray pray NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 14 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 15 speak speak NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obl 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 god god NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | a animal *not said here* | | | | for food; hunt *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | pray | speak | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speak=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:13`. **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 ×1, 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, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/27-homophones-words-that-sound-the-same/12/) - next →: [Homophones: words that sound the same, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/27-homophones-words-that-sound-the-same/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/27-homophones-words-that-sound-the-same/)