--- title: "Heard" is the past of hear; "herd" is a group of animals like cows;… — Homophones: words that sound the same · tree and pragmatics description: "Heard" is the past of hear; "herd" is a group of animals like cows; "heard" has "ear" in it. Who acts: Heard, herd. 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 the pragmatics of every clause. --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Homophones: words that sound the same, sentence 9 "Heard" is the past of hear; "herd" is a group of animals like cows; "heard" has "ear" in it. **Who acts:** Heard, herd · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** past, group, ear, herd 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 (Heard, herd), 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:9 # text = "Heard" is the past of hear; "herd" is a group of animals like cows; "heard" has "ear" in 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Heard heard NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 past past NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 hear hear NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 11 herd herd NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 18 like like ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 cows cow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 heard hear NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 24 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 26 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: other - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Heard | the past | | | | of hear | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | herd | a group | | | | of animals like cows | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | present | heard | ear | | herd | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=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:9`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Homophones: words that sound the same, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/27-homophones-words-that-sound-the-same/8/) - next →: [Homophones: words that sound the same, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/27-homophones-words-that-sound-the-same/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/27-homophones-words-that-sound-the-same/)