Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures, sentence 20
A simile compares two things using «like» or «as»: lonely as a cloud.
Who acts: simile · What happens: compare, use · To what, where: two things
This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures» of the english course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (simile), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
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 | 3 compares | nsubj |
| 3 | compares | compare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 things | nummod |
| 5 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 compares | obj |
| 6 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 compares | advcl |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 like | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 using | obj |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 like | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 as | cc |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 12 as | punct |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 like | conj |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 as | punct |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 lonely | punct |
| 15 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 compares | parataxis |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 cloud | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 cloud | det |
| 18 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lonely | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 compares | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compare | present | a simile | two things | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | use | gerund | a simile not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent like=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.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:english:025-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures.lesson:20.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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