Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, sentence 12

Good readers name the effect, not only the trick: the hard c sounds make the eagle seem strong, and the "hands" make it seem almost human.

Who acts: Good readers, hard c sounds, eagle, hands, it · What happens: name, make, seem · To what, where: effect

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 (Good readers, hard c sounds, eagle, hands), 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	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 readers	amod
2	readers	reader	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 name	nsubj
3	name	name	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 effect	det
5	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 name	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 trick	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 trick	advmod
8	only	only	ADV	_	10 trick	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 trick	det
10	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 effect	nmod
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 make	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sounds	det
13	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sounds	amod
14	c	c	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sounds	compound
15	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 make	nsubj
16	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 name	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 eagle	det
18	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 seem	nsubj
19	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 make	xcomp
20	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 seem	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 make	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 make	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 hands	det
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 hands	punct
25	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 make	nsubj
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 hands	punct
27	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 make	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 seem	nsubj
29	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 make	xcomp
30	almost	almost	ADV	_	31 human	advmod
31	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 seem	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 name	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	name	present	Good readers	the effect the trick		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Theme
2	make	present	the hard c sounds			tree rules
3	seem	infinitive	the eagle		strong property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	make	present	the hands			tree rules
5	seem	infinitive	it		human property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme

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:12.

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, 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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