Test 11 · ★ · Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration
"The leaves danced like dizzy dancers." Which of simile, personification and alliteration does it use?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: leaves, simile · What happens: dance, use
This is test 11 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: "The leaves danced like dizzy dancers."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 danced | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 leaves | det |
| 3 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 danced | nsubj |
| 4 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 dancers | case |
| 6 | dizzy | dizzy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dancers | amod |
| 7 | dancers | dancer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 danced | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 danced | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 danced | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance in a quote | past | the leaves | like dizzy dancers | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: Which of simile, personification and alliteration does it use?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 simile | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 simile | case |
| 3 | simile | simile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 use | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 personification | punct |
| 5 | personification | personification | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 simile | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 alliteration | cc |
| 7 | alliteration | alliteration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 simile | conj |
| 8 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 use | aux |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 use | nsubj |
| 10 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 use | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present · do-support | simile and personification and alliteration | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
The simile and alliteration, not personification
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 simile | det |
| 2 | simile | simile | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 alliteration | cc |
| 4 | alliteration | alliteration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 simile | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 personification | punct |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 personification | advmod |
| 7 | personification | personification | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 simile | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
All three of them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 three | det |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 three | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Only the alliteration
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 alliteration | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 alliteration | det |
| 3 | alliteration | alliteration | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Only the simile
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 simile | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 simile | det |
| 3 | simile | simile | NOUN | 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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