Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, sentence 14

In Boston and New England "wicked" means "very", so "wicked good" means very good; in Liverpool a "like" at the end of a sentence is a filler word, not a comparison.

Who acts: wicked, wicked good, like · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: good, filler word, Liverpool

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 (wicked, wicked good, like), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 Boston	case
2	Boston	Boston	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 means	obl
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 England	cc
4	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 England	flat
5	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Boston	conj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 wicked	punct
7	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 means	nsubj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 wicked	punct
9	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 very	punct
11	very	very	ADV	_	9 means	ccomp
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 very	punct
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 means	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	19 means	advmod
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 good	punct
16	wicked	wick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 good	amod
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 means	nsubj
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 good	punct
19	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 means	conj
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 good	advmod
21	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 means	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 word	punct
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 Liverpool	case
24	Liverpool	Liverpool	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 word	obl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 like	det
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 like	punct
27	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 word	nsubj
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 like	punct
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 end	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 end	det
31	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 like	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 sentence	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 sentence	det
34	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 end	nmod
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 word	cop
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 word	det
37	filler	filler	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 word	compound
38	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 means	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 comparison	punct
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 comparison	advmod
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 comparison	det
42	comparison	comparison	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 word	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present	wicked			in Boston and New England	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in boston=Attribute
2	mean	present	wicked good	good			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Topic
3	is a	present	a like at the end of a sentence	a filler word and a comparison	Liverpool		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:046-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration.lesson:14.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×3, R8-pos-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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