--- title: "Flour" and "flower" were once the same word; "flower" also meant th… — Homophones: words that sound the same · tree and pragmatics description: "Flour" and "flower" were once the same word; "flower" also meant the best part, and flour was the finest part of the ground grain; the spellings split only a few hundred years ago. Who acts: Flour, flower, spellings. 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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 (Flour, flower, spellings), 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:6 # text = "Flour" and "flower" were once the same word; "flower" also meant the best part, and flour was the finest part of the ground grain; the spellings split only a few hundred years ago. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Flour flour NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 9 once once ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 parataxis _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 15 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:appos 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 also also ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 meant mean VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 21 amod _ _ 21 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 flour flour NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 finest fine ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 28 amod _ _ 28 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obl 29 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 33 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 spellings spelling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 36 split split VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 37 only only ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 39 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 40 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 41 nummod _ _ 41 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obl:unmarked _ _ 42 ago ago ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18: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 | **is a** | past | Flour and flower | the same word | | | | once *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | past | flower | the best part | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Topic | | 3 | **is a** | past | flour | the finest part | | | | of the ground grain | tree rules | | 4 | **split** | past | the spellings | | | | | ago *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:6`. **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, 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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