Test 2 · ★ · Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration
Kenzie, Gen Alpha: "'The thunder growled' is a simile, no cap." ("No cap" means no lie.) What is it really?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: thunder, Kenzie, cap · What happens: growl, be, mean · To what, where: simile, lie, cap · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 · ★ 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: Kenzie, Gen Alpha: "'The thunder growled' is a simile, no cap."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenzie | Kenzie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 simile | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Alpha | punct |
| 3 | Gen | Gen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Alpha | compound |
| 4 | Alpha | Alpha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Kenzie | conj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 growled | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 growled | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 growled | punct |
| 8 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 thunder | det |
| 9 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 growled | nsubj |
| 10 | growled | growl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 simile | csubj |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 growled | punct |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 simile | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 simile | det |
| 14 | simile | simile | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cap | punct |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 cap | det |
| 17 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 simile | appos |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 simile | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 simile | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | growl in a quote | past | the thunder | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Kenzie and Gen Alpha | a simile | tree rules |
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: ("No cap" means no lie.)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cap | punct |
| 3 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 cap | det |
| 4 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cap | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 lie | det |
| 8 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | no cap | no lie | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Topic |
Sentence 3: What is it really?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 it | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 1 What | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | cap | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Alliteration
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alliteration | alliteration | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A metaphor about noise
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 metaphor | det |
| 2 | metaphor | metaphor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 noise | case |
| 4 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 metaphor | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A simile
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 |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Personification
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Personification | personification | 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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