[_emacsomancer_]

Ok, terminology is getting in the way, perhaps.

I'm assuming your word-pairs are supposed to be examples of differences in pronunciation of the 'verb' vs the 'noun'. Or did you have something else in mind?

[natch]

Yeah, the first. But... you're taking this way too seriously. This isn't even reddit. These are examples that can illuminate for non-Chinese speaking people how tones in words can make a difference to meaning.

[schoen]

But there are technical differences between stress and tone. Stress does distinguish words in English, but tone doesn't.

[natch]

Except when it does. I’ve provided examples.