Poetry: rhyme and rhythm, sentence 6

Rhyme makes poems easier to remember and fun to say, which is one reason nursery rhymes have lasted hundreds of years.

Who acts: Rhyme, poems, nursery rhymes · What happens: make, remember, say, be, last · To what, where: poems, one reason, hundreds · 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, poems, nursery rhymes), 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	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	poems	poem	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
4	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 remember	mark
6	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 easier	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fun	cc
8	fun	fun	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 easier	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 say	mark
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 fun	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lasted	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 reason	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 reason	cop
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 reason	nummod
15	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	parataxis
16	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rhymes	compound
17	rhymes	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 lasted	nsubj
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 lasted	aux
19	lasted	last	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 reason	acl:relcl
20	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 lasted	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 years	case
22	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 hundreds	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 makes	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present	Rhyme	poems	easy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset poem=Product
2	remember	to-infinitive	poems not said here			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	poems not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present		one reason		tree rules
5	last	present · perfect	nursery rhymes	hundreds of years		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme hundred=Value

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:6.

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): R5-strong ×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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