--- title: "Stationery" with an e means paper, pens and envelopes ("e for envel… — Homophones: words that sound the same · tree and pragmatics description: "Stationery" with an e means paper, pens and envelopes ("e for envelopes"); "stationary" with an a means standing still. Who acts: Stationery, stationary. 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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 (Stationery, stationary), 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:14 # text = "Stationery" with an e means paper, pens and envelopes ("e for envelopes"); "stationary" with an a means standing still. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Stationery stationery NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 e e NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 pens pen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 envelopes envelope NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 13 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 15 e e NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 flat _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 envelopes envelope NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 19 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 stationary stationary NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:det 26 a a NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 27 means means VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 28 standing standing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:xcomp 29 still still ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Stationery with a e | paper and pens and envelopes | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=Topic | | 2 | **means** | present | stationary with a | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **standing** | gerund | | | | | still | | 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:14`. **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 ×1, 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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