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Test 8 · ★ · Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration

Ella's poem has twenty similes in eight lines. What would a teacher most likely say?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: poem, teacher · What happens: have, say · To what, where: twenty similes, eight lines · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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: Ella's poem has twenty similes in eight lines.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ella	Ella	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 poem	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ella	case
3	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 similes	nummod
6	similes	simile	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 lines	case
8	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 lines	nummod
9	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 similes	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Ella's poem	twenty similes		eight lines			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent simile=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.

Sentence 2: What would a teacher most likely say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 teacher	det
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 likely	advmod
6	likely	likely	ADV	_	7 say	advmod
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would	a teacher					likely property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

Add twenty more to make it really strong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Add	add	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 more	nummod
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Add	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 make	mark
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Add	advcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 make	obj
7	really	really	ADV	_	8 strong	advmod
8	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	twenty more					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient
2	make	to-infinitive	you not said here	it				strong property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Brilliant, the more similes the better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 similes	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Brilliant	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 similes	det
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 similes	amod
5	similes	simile	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 better	det
7	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 similes	acl:relcl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Swap every one of them for a cliché

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Swap	swap	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 one	det
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Swap	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 one	nmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 cliché	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cliché	det
8	cliché	cliché	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Swap	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swap	imperative	you not said here	every one of them				for a cliché	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent one=Theme for cliché=Co-Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Keep the best few so each one stands out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 few	det
3	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 few	amod
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Keep	obj
5	so	so	ADV	_	8 stands	advmod
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 one	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stands	nsubj
8	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	parataxis
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 stands	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	the best few					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent few=Theme
2	stand out	present	each one						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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