--- title: Homophones are words with the same sound but a different meaning and… — Homophones: words that sound the same · tree and pragmatics description: Homophones are words with the same sound but a different meaning and often a different spelling: knight and night, sea and see, son and sun, write and right. Who acts: Homophones. 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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 (Homophones), 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:5 # text = Homophones are words with the same sound but a different meaning and often a different spelling: knight and night, sea and see, son and sun, write and right. # 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 ×4 1 Homophones homophone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 meaning meaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 often often ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 spelling spelling NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 18 knight knight NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:appos 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 see see NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:conj 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 write write NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 33 . . 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 | **is a** | present | Homophones | words | | | | with the same sound but a different meaning and a different spelling | 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:5`. **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 ×4. **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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/27-homophones-words-that-sound-the-same/4/) - next →: [Homophones: words that sound the same, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/27-homophones-words-that-sound-the-same/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/27-homophones-words-that-sound-the-same/)