Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, sentence 15
More similes do not make a better poem: a few strong ones beat a crowd of weak ones.
Who acts: More similes, few strong ones · What happens: not make, beat · To what, where: better poem, crowd
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 (More similes, few strong ones), 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 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 similes | amod |
| 2 | similes | simile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 make | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 make | advmod |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 poem | det |
| 7 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 poem | amod |
| 8 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 beat | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 ones | det |
| 11 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ones | amod |
| 12 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ones | amod |
| 13 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 beat | nsubj |
| 14 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 crowd | det |
| 16 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 beat | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 ones | case |
| 18 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 ones | amod |
| 19 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 crowd | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make | present · do-support | More similes | a better poem | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset poem=Product | ||||
| 2 | beat | present | a few strong ones | a crowd of weak ones | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location crowd=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:15.
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): 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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