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Test 7 · ★★★ · Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures

In a cartoon, a poet only writes «moon, June, spoon, tune». What does real poetry also use?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: poet, real poetry · What happens: write, use · To what, where: moon, cartoon

This is test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 25 «Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures» of the English course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

Sentence 1: In a cartoon, a poet only writes «moon, June, spoon, tune».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 writes	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 poet	det
6	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 writes	nsubj
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 writes	advmod
8	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 moon	punct
10	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 writes	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 June	punct
12	June	June	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 moon	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 spoon	punct
14	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 moon	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tune	punct
16	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 moon	conj
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 moon	punct
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 writes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	present	a poet	moon and spoon and tune		a cartoon			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent moon=Theme in cartoon=Destination

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.

Sentence 2: What does real poetry also use?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 use	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 use	aux
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 poetry	amod
4	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 use	nsubj
5	also	also	ADV	_	6 use	advmod
6	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 use	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present · do-support	real poetry						vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Imagery, rhythm and feeling, not only rhyme

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Imagery	imagery	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 rhythm	punct
3	rhythm	rhythm	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Imagery	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 feeling	cc
5	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Imagery	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 rhyme	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 rhyme	advmod
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 rhyme	advmod
9	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Imagery	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Long lists of numbers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lists	amod
2	lists	list	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 numbers	case
4	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lists	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	list			numbers					nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

Only rhymes that end in «oon»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 rhymes	advmod
2	rhymes	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 end	nsubj
4	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 rhymes	acl:relcl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 oon	case
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 oon	punct
7	oon	oon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 end	obl
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 oon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	present	rhymes			oon			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

Nothing else at all, because rhyme is the whole of poetry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 whole	nsubj
2	else	else	ADV	_	1 Nothing	advmod
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 all	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 all	punct
6	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	7 rhyme	case
7	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 all	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 whole	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 whole	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 poetry	case
12	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 whole	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing					of poetry; whole property	tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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