Poetry: rhyme and rhythm, sentence 15

A rhyming dictionary lists words by their sounds; poets have used them for centuries, and choosing the right rhyme is still the poet's job.

Who acts: rhyming dictionary, poets · What happens: list, use, choose, be · To what, where: words, right rhyme, job

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 (rhyming dictionary, poets), 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	3 dictionary	det
2	rhyming	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dictionary	compound
3	dictionary	dictionary	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lists	nsubj
4	lists	list	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lists	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 sounds	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sounds	nmod:poss
8	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lists	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 used	punct
10	poets	poet	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 used	nsubj
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 used	aux
12	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 lists	parataxis
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 used	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 centuries	case
15	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 used	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 choosing	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 choosing	cc
18	choosing	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 used	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 rhyme	det
20	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 rhyme	amod
21	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 choosing	obj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 job	cop
23	still	still	ADV	_	27 job	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 poet	det
25	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 job	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 poet	case
27	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 choosing	ccomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lists	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	list	present	a rhyming dictionary	words		by words's sounds	tree rules
2	use	present · perfect	poets	words = word	century		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	choose	gerund	poets not said here	the right rhyme			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rhyme=Theme
4	is a	present	poets not said here	the poet's job	still		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.

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:15.

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, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-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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