Test 9 · Poetry: rhyme and rhythm
★★★ A verse ends with day, moon, play, soon. What is its rhyme pattern?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★, verse · What happens: ★, end, be · To what, where: rhyme pattern
This is test 9 of lesson 45 «Poetry: rhyme and rhythm» 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: ★★★ A verse ends with day, moon, play, soon.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 verse | det |
| 5 | verse | verse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ends | nsubj |
| 6 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ★ | ccomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 day | case |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ends | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 moon | punct |
| 10 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 day | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 play | punct |
| 12 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 day | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 soon | punct |
| 14 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 ★ | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ★ | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | present | ★ | soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | end | present | a verse | day | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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 is its rhyme pattern?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 pattern | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pattern | cop |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 pattern | nmod:poss |
| 4 | rhyme | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pattern | compound |
| 5 | pattern | pattern | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 pattern | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | verse's rhyme pattern | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
ABAB
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ABAB | ABAB | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
ABBA
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ABBA | ABBA | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
ABCD
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ABCD | ABCD | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
AABB
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AABB | AABB | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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