Test 4 · ★ · Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration
A cartoon teacher says "Boom!" is alliteration. Fix it.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon teacher, you · What happens: say, be, fix · To what, where: Boom alliteration, alliteration · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★ 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: A cartoon teacher says "Boom!" is alliteration.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 teacher | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 teacher | compound |
| 3 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Boom | punct |
| 6 | Boom | boom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 alliteration | compound |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 Boom | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Boom | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 alliteration | cop |
| 10 | alliteration | alliteration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | ccomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a cartoon teacher | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Boom alliteration | 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: Fix it.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fix | fix | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Fix | obj |
| 3 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fix | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | imperative | you not said here | alliteration | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
"Boom" is the personification of a noise
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Boom | punct |
| 2 | Boom | boom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 personification | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Boom | punct |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 personification | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 personification | det |
| 6 | personification | personification | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 noise | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 noise | det |
| 9 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 personification | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Boom | the personification | of a noise | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
"Boom" is onomatopoeia: it sounds like its meaning
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Boom | punct |
| 2 | Boom | boom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 onomatopoeia | compound |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Boom | punct |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 onomatopoeia | cop |
| 5 | onomatopoeia | onomatopoeia | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 sounds | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sounds | nsubj |
| 8 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 onomatopoeia | acl:relcl |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 meaning | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 meaning | nmod:poss |
| 11 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sounds | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Boom onomatopoeia | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sound | present | onomatopoeia | Boom onomatopoeia not said here | like onomatopoeia's meaning | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location onomatopoeia=Theme | |||
| 3 | mean | onomatopoeia | nom meaning «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
The cartoon is right, it is alliteration
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cartoon | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 right | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | cop |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 alliteration | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 alliteration | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 alliteration | cop |
| 8 | alliteration | alliteration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 right | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the cartoon | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | cartoon | alliteration | tree rules |
Option 4
"Boom" is a metaphor for a big explosion
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Boom | punct |
| 2 | Boom | boom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 metaphor | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Boom | punct |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 metaphor | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 metaphor | det |
| 6 | metaphor | metaphor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 explosion | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 explosion | det |
| 9 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 explosion | amod |
| 10 | explosion | explosion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 metaphor | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Boom | a metaphor | for a big explosion | tree rules |
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