--- title: Homophones also depend on accent: a pair that sounds the same in New… — Homophones: words that sound the same · tree and pragmatics description: Homophones also depend on accent: a pair that sounds the same in New York may sound different in London or Glasgow, and both accents are fine. Who acts: Homophones, pair, accents. A sentence of the lesson «Homophones: words that sound the same» of the language course of Mova's primary school with it --- [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/3/) [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/) / 3 # Homophones: words that sound the same, sentence 3 Homophones also depend on accent: a pair that sounds the same in New York may sound different in London or Glasgow, and both accents are fine. **Who acts:** Homophones, pair, accents · **What happens:** depend, sound, be · **To what, where:** same, New York 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 (Homophones, pair, accents), 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:3 # text = Homophones also depend on accent: a pair that sounds the same in New York may sound different in London or Glasgow, and both accents are fine. # 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): no change 1 Homophones homophone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 also also ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 depend depend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 accent accent NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 pair pair NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 obj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 New New PROPN NNP _ 15 flat _ _ 15 York York PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 16 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 sound sound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 18 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 Glasgow Glasgow PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 26 det _ _ 26 accents accent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **depend** | present | Homophones | | | | | on accent | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on accent=Theme | | 2 | **sound** | present | a pair | the same | | New York | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location same=Theme | | 3 | **sound** | may | a pair | | | | | different *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **is** | present | both accents | | | | | fine *property* | 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:3`. **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): no change. **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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/27-homophones-words-that-sound-the-same/2/) - next →: [Homophones: words that sound the same, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/27-homophones-words-that-sound-the-same/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/27-homophones-words-that-sound-the-same/)