Test 10 · ★ · Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration
In "The moon smiled down on the silver sea", which devices are used?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: moon · What happens: smile down, use · To what, where: silver sea, devices
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 46 «Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration» 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | SCONJ | _ | 5 smiled | mark |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 smiled | punct |
| 3 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 moon | det |
| 4 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 smiled | nsubj |
| 5 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 used | advcl |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 smiled | compound:prt |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 sea | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sea | det |
| 9 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sea | compound |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 smiled | obl |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 smiled | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 used | punct |
| 13 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 14 devices | det |
| 14 | devices | device | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 used | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 used | aux:pass |
| 16 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 used | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smile down in a quote | past | the moon | the silver sea | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | use | present · passive | which devices | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Personification and alliteration
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Personification | personification | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 alliteration | cc |
| 3 | alliteration | alliteration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Personification | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A simile, and no other device at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 simile | det |
| 2 | simile | simile | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 device | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 device | cc |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 device | det |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 device | amod |
| 7 | device | device | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 simile | appos |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 all | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 device | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A simile and onomatopoeia
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 simile | det |
| 2 | simile | simile | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 onomatopoeia | cc |
| 4 | onomatopoeia | onomatopoeia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 simile | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Onomatopoeia and nothing else
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Onomatopoeia | onomatopoeia | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 nothing | cc |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 1 Onomatopoeia | conj |
| 4 | else | else | ADV | _ | 3 nothing | advmod |
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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