Test 3 · ★ · Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration

What would happen to "The sun is a golden coin" if you put "like" after "is"?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sun, you · What happens: happen, be, put · To what, where: golden coin

This is test 3 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	11 coin	mark
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 coin	punct
6	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sun	det
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 coin	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 coin	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 coin	det
10	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 coin	amod
11	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 coin	punct
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 put	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 put	nsubj
15	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 like	punct
17	like	like	INTJ	_	15 put	discourse
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 put	punct
19	after	after	SCONJ	_	21 is	mark
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 is	punct
21	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 put	advcl
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 is	punct
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present	the sun	a golden coin	tree rules
3	put a condition, not said to happen	present	you		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	be in a quote	present	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It would become alliteration

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	alliteration	alliteration	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	It	alliteration					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It would become a simile

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 simile	det
5	simile	simile	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	It	a simile					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3

It would become personification

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	personification	personification	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	It	personification					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4

It would stop being poetry at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 poetry	cop
5	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stop	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 stop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	It			all			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location
2	is a	gerund		poetry					tree rules

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