Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, sentence 10
Onomatopoeia is a word that sounds like its meaning, such as buzz, hiss, crash and pop; "buzz" on its own is not alliteration.
Who acts: Onomatopoeia, word, buzz · What happens: be, sound, not be, mean · To what, where: word, alliteration
This is a sentence of the lesson «Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration» 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 (Onomatopoeia, word, buzz), 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 | Onomatopoeia | onomatopoeia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 word | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 word | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 word | det |
| 4 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 sounds | nsubj |
| 6 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 word | acl:relcl |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 meaning | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 meaning | nmod:poss |
| 9 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sounds | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 buzz | punct |
| 11 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 13 buzz | case |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 such | fixed |
| 13 | buzz | buzz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 word | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hiss | punct |
| 15 | hiss | hiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 buzz | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 crash | punct |
| 17 | crash | crash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 buzz | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 pop | cc |
| 19 | pop | pop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 buzz | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 buzz | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 buzz | punct |
| 22 | buzz | buzz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 alliteration | nsubj |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 buzz | punct |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 own | case |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 own | nmod:poss |
| 26 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 buzz | nmod |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 alliteration | cop |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 alliteration | advmod |
| 29 | alliteration | alliteration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 word | parataxis |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 word | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Onomatopoeia | a word and buzz and hiss and crash and pop | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sound | present | a word and buzz and hiss and crash and pop | like onomatopoeia's meaning | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not is a | present | buzz on onomatopoeia's own | alliteration | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | mean | onomatopoeia | nom meaning «communication transitive»: poss=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:046-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration.lesson:10.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-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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