--- title: Many homophones once sounded different, and spelling still remembers… — Homophones: words that sound the same · tree and pragmatics description: Many homophones once sounded different, and spelling still remembers the old sounds; the k in "knight" was once said out loud. Who acts: Many homophones, spelling. 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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 (Many homophones, spelling), 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:2 # text = Many homophones once sounded different, and spelling still remembers the old sounds; the k in "knight" was once said out loud. # 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 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 homophones homophone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 4 advmod _ _ 4 sounded sound VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 spelling spelling NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 still still ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 remembers remember VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 k k NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 19 knight knight NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 22 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 23 advmod _ _ 23 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ _ 24 out out ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 25 loud loud ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sound** | past | Many homophones | | | | | different, once *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **remember** | present | spelling | the old sounds | | | still | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent sound=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · passive | | the k in knight | | | | loud, once *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=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:2`. **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. **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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/27-homophones-words-that-sound-the-same/1/) - next →: [Homophones: words that sound the same, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/27-homophones-words-that-sound-the-same/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/27-homophones-words-that-sound-the-same/)