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title: "Bear" means put up with, carry, or the animal; "bare" means uncover… — Homophones: words that sound the same · tree and pragmatics
description: "Bear" means put up with, carry, or the animal; "bare" means uncovered or empty; "I can't bear it" means I can't stand it. Who acts: Bear, bare, meaning, I. A sentence of the lesson «Homophones: words that sound the same» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and t
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# Homophones: words that sound the same, sentence 7

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"Bear" means put up with, carry, or the animal; "bare" means uncovered or empty; "I can't bear it" means I can't stand it.

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**Who acts:** Bear, bare, meaning, I · **What happens:** mean, put up, not bear, not stand · **To what, where:** animal, bare · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Bear, bare, meaning, I), 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:7
# text = "Bear" means put up with, carry, or the animal; "bare" means uncovered or empty; "I can't bear it" means I can't stand it.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	carry	carry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	bare	bare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nsubj
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
19	uncovered	uncover	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	csubj	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
30	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
31	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	ccomp	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Bear |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **put up** *not said to happen* | infinitive | Bear *not said here* | the animal |  |  |  | with carry | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mean** | present | bare |  |  |  |  | uncover *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **bear** *in a quote* | can | the meaning *= meaning* | bare |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 5 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **not** **stand** | can | I | bare |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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.

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**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, 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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