--- title: For most English speakers "which" and "witch" sound the same, but ma… — Homophones: words that sound the same · tree and pragmatics description: For most English speakers "which" and "witch" sound the same, but many speakers in Scotland and Ireland say "wh" with a breathy sound, so the two are different. Who acts: many speakers, two. 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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 speakers, two), 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:8 # text = For most English speakers "which" and "witch" sound the same, but many speakers in Scotland and Ireland say "wh" with a breathy sound, so the two are different. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 For for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 4 amod _ _ 3 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 speakers speaker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 6 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 sound sound VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 17 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 speakers speaker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=20:cc 22 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 23 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:parataxis 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 25 wh wh NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 breathy breathy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 so so ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 nsubj _ _ 35 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 36 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj 37 . . PUNCT . _ 12 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** | present | | the same | | | | for most English speakers | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location same=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | many speakers in Scotland and Ireland | wh | | | | with a breathy sound | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent wh=Theme with sound=Manner | | 3 | **is** | present | the two | | | | | different *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:8`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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