Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, sentence 5
A simile compares two things using "like" or "as": "as brave as a lion", "like a golden coin".
Who acts: simile · What happens: compare, use · To what, where: two things
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 (simile), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 simile | det |
| 2 | simile | simile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 compares | nsubj |
| 3 | compares | compare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 things | nummod |
| 5 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 compares | obj |
| 6 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 compares | advcl |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 like | punct |
| 8 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 17 brave | discourse |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 like | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 brave | cc |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 as | punct |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 like | conj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 brave | punct |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 brave | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 brave | punct |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 brave | advmod |
| 17 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 using | parataxis |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 lion | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 lion | det |
| 20 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brave | obl |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 brave | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 brave | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 brave | punct |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 27 coin | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 coin | det |
| 26 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 coin | amod |
| 27 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brave | obl |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 coin | punct |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 compares | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compare | present | a simile | two things | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | use | gerund | a simile not said here | 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:5.
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, R6-punct-agree ×4, R8-pos-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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