rhyme

«rhyme» in Mova's school dictionary: the same, like "cat" and "hat", or "light" and "night" — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a rhyme, rhymes); verb (rhyme, rhymes, rhymed, rhyming)

meaning for a pupil

1) Words rhyme when their ending sounds are the same, like "cat" and "hat", or "light" and "night". tree →

2) A rhyme is a word that rhymes with another word. tree →

3) A short poem or song with rhyming words, like a nursery rhyme. tree →

sense in the lessons

In English lessons pupils find rhyming words, write rhyming poems and learn nursery rhymes. Rhyme helps people remember things, like "Thirty days hath September". Phrases: nursery rhyme, rhyme with, rhyming couplet, without rhyme or reason (with no sense at all).

examples

• "Cat" rhymes with "hat". tree →
• Can you think of a rhyme for "moon"? tree →
• We learned a nursery rhyme about a spider. tree →
• Write a poem with words that rhyme. tree →
• "Hey Diddle Diddle" is a funny old rhyme. tree →
• The words "bear" and "chair" rhyme even though they are spelt differently. tree →
• Rhymes help little children learn to read. tree →

note

Spelling: "rhyme" has a silent h and a y. Rhyme is about sound, not spelling: "blue" and "shoe" rhyme; "cough" and "dough" do not. Homophone: "rime" is frost, a rare word. Not every poem has to rhyme. "Rhyme with": "Red rhymes with bed."

In the corpora

• Bots rhyme by sound and may not notice that a rhyme sounds rude or silly.
• Jaguar turns it into a rhyme: «Can't curl, but can swim, Slow-Solid, that's him!
• Hedgehog and Tortoise know Jaguar will never forget his rhyme, so they decide to swap skills.
• You learn it by ear, the way kids pick up a counting rhyme.
• The old rhyme says «i before e except after c».

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «rhyme» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.