Poetry: rhyme and rhythm, sentence 0
Rhyme is when words end with the same sound, like wall and fall in the old nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall"; rhymes click together like puzzle pieces and make lines easy to remember.
Who acts: Rhyme, rhymes, lines · What happens: be, sit, have, click, make, remember · To what, where: old nursery rhyme, wall, great fall, lines · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Poetry: rhyme and rhythm» 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 (Rhyme, rhymes, lines), 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 | Rhyme | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 end | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 end | cop |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 end | advmod |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 end | nsubj |
| 5 | end | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 sound | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sound | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sound | amod |
| 9 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 end | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wall | punct |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 wall | case |
| 12 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 end | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fall | cc |
| 14 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wall | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 rhyme | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 rhyme | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 rhyme | amod |
| 18 | nursery | nursery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rhyme | compound |
| 19 | rhyme | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 end | obl |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Humpty | punct |
| 21 | Humpty | Humpty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 rhyme | appos |
| 22 | Dumpty | Dumpty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Humpty | flat |
| 23 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 rhyme | parataxis |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 wall | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 wall | det |
| 26 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sat | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Humpty | punct |
| 28 | Humpty | Humpty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 rhyme | appos |
| 29 | Dumpty | Dumpty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Humpty | flat |
| 30 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 rhyme | parataxis |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 fall | det |
| 32 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 fall | amod |
| 33 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 had | obj |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 fall | punct |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 click | punct |
| 36 | rhymes | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 click | nsubj |
| 37 | click | click | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 end | conj |
| 38 | together | together | ADV | _ | 37 click | advmod |
| 39 | like | like | ADP | _ | 41 pieces | case |
| 40 | puzzle | puzzle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 pieces | compound |
| 41 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 click | obl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 make | cc |
| 43 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 click | conj |
| 44 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 make | obj |
| 45 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 make | xcomp |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 remember | mark |
| 47 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 easy | xcomp |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 end | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Rhyme | the old nursery rhyme | with the same sound; like wall and fall; end property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sit in a quote | past | a wall | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wall=Location | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | past | a great fall | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fall=Patient | |||||
| 4 | click | infinitive | rhymes | like puzzle pieces; together property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | make | present | rhymes not said here | lines | easy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset line=Product | |||
| 6 | remember | to-infinitive | lines not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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:045-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm.lesson:0.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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