Poetry: rhyme and rhythm
Tests: 4 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 6 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 45 of the english course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: the lesson in the corpora.
Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: the lesson's questions in the corpora.
Test 1 · wrong ✗
Tom, Gen Alpha, says "Poems are mid, they don't even rhyme sometimes." ("Mid" means not very good.) What is the truth?
- 1. A poem that doesn't rhyme is not a real poem — score 0
- 2. Only bad poets forget to add rhymes — no support
- 3. Many poems use rhythm and images instead of rhyme — ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 4. All poems rhyme if you read them faster — ← Mova's choice · score 6
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 45, line 5: «Rhyme depends on accent: a Glasgow boy says "'Bath' doesnae rhyme wi' 'laugh' for me, Miss" ("doesnae" is doesn't), because in Scotland and the North bath has…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «rhyme» (+5); the same doer «poem» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · wrong ✗
★★★ "All the king's horses and all the king's men / Couldn't put Humpty together again." In which accent do "men" and "again" rhyme?
- 1. Only when you whisper the poem — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. One where "again" sounds like "a-gen" — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. One where "men" sounds like "moon" — no support
- 4. No accent at all, they never rhyme — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · right ✓
In a cartoon, a poet forces every line to rhyme with "cheese" and the poem ends up about sneezing trees. What lesson does it show?
- 1. Trees really can sneeze in poems — no support
- 2. Rhyme should not push out the meaning — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
- 3. Rhymes always improve any poem, whatever they say — score 7
- 4. Every poem should be about cheese and trees — score 6
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 45, line 5: «Rhyme depends on accent: a Glasgow boy says "'Bath' doesnae rhyme wi' 'laugh' for me, Miss" ("doesnae" is doesn't), because in Scotland and the North bath has…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «rhyme» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · wrong ✗
What would happen if you read "Faster than fairies, faster than witches" very slowly?
- 1. It would sound even faster than the train itself — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. It would become free verse — no support
- 3. It would lose the rushing feel of the train — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. The rhymes would disappear — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · wrong ✗
Your cousin from Cork says "That poem's grand, but it's awful sing-songy." ("Grand" means fine.) What is "sing-songy" about?
- 1. The poem has no title — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A very strong, regular rhythm — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. No rhythm of any kind — no support
- 4. Too few words in each line of every verse — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · wrong ✗
★★★ Which pair rhymes in almost every English accent?
- 1. bath and laugh — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 2. grass and farce — no support
- 3. night and light — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. path and math — no support
Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 1 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 45, line 5: «Rhyme depends on accent: a Glasgow boy says "'Bath' doesnae rhyme wi' 'laugh' for me, Miss" ("doesnae" is doesn't), because in Scotland and the North bath has…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same circumstance (+3). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · right ✓
Your brother, dead sarky: "'I love my dog, he is a frog.' Genius, mate." What is he mocking?
- 1. A rhyme that makes no sense — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. A poem with no rhyme — no support
- 3. A very slow rhythm — no support
- 4. A poem that is too long — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · wrong ✗
A girl in Texas says "Y'all, I wrote a rap!" Her teacher says "Clap the beat." What will clapping show?
- 1. Whether the words are slang — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 2. How many rhymes she spelled — score 7
- 3. Whether her rap is too long — score 7
- 4. The rhythm of her lines — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 5, line 2: «Every letter has a starting point and a direction. Isla starts her «d» at the bottom and pushes up; her teacher says «start at the top». Many letters, a, d, g,…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «many letters» (+3). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · right ✓
★★★ A verse ends with day, moon, play, soon. What is its rhyme pattern?
- 1. ABAB — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. ABBA — no support
- 3. ABCD — no support
- 4. AABB — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · wrong ✗
A Welsh nan says "Lush little poem, cariad." ("Lush" means lovely, "cariad" means love.) The poem is "Rain on the roof, rain on the road, / Rain on the back of a dripping toad." Which words rhyme?
- 1. back and dripping — no support
- 2. rain and roof — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 3. road and toad — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. roof and road — no support
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 45, line 12: «Whether two words rhyme can depend on accent: bath and laugh rhyme in much of southern England but not in the North or in Scotland.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same action «rhyme» (+1); the same doer «two words» (+1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · right ✓
Which line has the most obvious beat to march to?
- 1. Sometimes, in the quiet, I think about things — no support
- 2. The kettle, which is old, gave up — no support
- 3. Perhaps I shall not go — no support
- 4. Left, right, left, right, march along tonight — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 40, line 1: «The first line of a piece of writing is a fishing hook: its job is to catch the reader and make them want the next line, and the next.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «first line» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓
Identify the pair of words constituting a rhyme.
- 1. fall and wall — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. fall and autumn — no support
- 3. fall and fallen — no support
- 4. fall and fill — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
Which of the following most accurately characterises rhythm in poetry?
- 1. The correspondence of sounds at the ends of words — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. The number of lines in a stanza — no support
- 3. The meaning conveyed by a poem's title — no support
- 4. The pattern of strong and weak beats within a line — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning rhyme and accent.
- 1. Whether two words rhyme may depend on the accent of the speaker — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Only one accent is permitted in poetry — no support
- 3. All words rhyme identically in every accent — no support
- 4. Accent has no bearing on the sound of words — no support
Why: Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
Ascertain the rhyme scheme of a quatrain (a verse of four lines) whose lines terminate in "star", "are", "high" and "sky".
- 1. ABAB — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. AABB — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. ABCD — no support
- 4. ABBA — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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