--- title: When a word's meaning changes over time, it is called semantic change. — Words that changed their meaning · tree and pragmatics description: When a word's meaning changes over time, it is called semantic change. Who acts: meaning, word. A sentence of the lesson «Words that changed their meaning» 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/38-words-that-changed-their-meaning/5/) [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/) / [Words that changed their meaning](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/38-words-that-changed-their-meaning/) / 5 # Words that changed their meaning, sentence 5 When a word's meaning changes over time, it is called semantic change. **Who acts:** meaning, word · **What happens:** change, call, mean · **To what, where:** text · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Words that changed their meaning» 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 (meaning, word), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:038-words-that-changed-their-meaning.lesson:5 # text = When a word's meaning changes over time, it is called semantic change. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 038-words-that-changed-their-meaning.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 meaning meaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 7 over over ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 13 semantic semantic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obj 15 . . 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 | **change** | present | a word's meaning | | | | time | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **call** | present · passive | | text | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 3 | **mean** | | a word | | | | | | nom meaning «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:038-words-that-changed-their-meaning.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): 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: [Words that changed their meaning, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/38-words-that-changed-their-meaning/4/) - next →: [Words that changed their meaning, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/38-words-that-changed-their-meaning/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/38-words-that-changed-their-meaning/)