Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, sentence 13

"As cold as ice" is a cliché, a comparison used so often it has gone stale; a fresh one, like "as cold as a metal slide in January", makes a clearer picture.

Who acts: cold ice, ice · What happens: be, use, go, make · To what, where: cliché, comparison, clearer picture

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 (cold ice, ice), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 makes	punct
2	As	as	ADV	_	3 cold	advmod
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ice	amod
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 ice	case
5	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cliché	nsubj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 ice	punct
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cliché	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cliché	det
9	cliché	cliché	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 makes	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cliché	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 comparison	det
12	comparison	comparison	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cliché	appos
13	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 comparison	acl
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 often	advmod
15	often	often	ADV	_	13 used	advmod
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 gone	nsubj
17	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 gone	aux
18	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 used	parataxis
19	stale	stale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 gone	xcomp
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 one	punct
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 one	det
22	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 one	amod
23	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 comparison	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 like	punct
25	like	like	ADP	_	23 one	case
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 cold	punct
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 cold	advmod
28	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 one	amod
29	as	as	ADP	_	32 slide	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 slide	det
31	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 slide	compound
32	slide	slide	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cold	obl
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 January	case
34	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 slide	nmod
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 cold	punct
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cliché	punct
37	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 picture	det
39	clearer	clear	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	40 picture	amod
40	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 makes	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 makes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	cold ice	a cliché		tree rules
2	use	participle		a comparison and a fresh one not said here	often property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go	present · perfect	ice		stale property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	make	present		a clearer picture		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset picture=Product

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:13.

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 ×2, R6-punct-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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