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# Test 7 · ★★★ · Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures

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In a cartoon, a poet only writes «moon, June, spoon, tune». What does real poetry also use?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** poet, real poetry · **What happens:** write, use · **To what, where:** moon, cartoon

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This is test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 25 «Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures» of the English course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a cartoon, a poet only writes «moon, June, spoon, tune».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures:t7:1
# text = In a cartoon, a poet only writes «moon, June, spoon, tune».
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	writes	write	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	tune	tune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | present | a poet | moon and spoon and tune |  | a cartoon |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent moon=Theme in cartoon=Destination |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What does real poetry also use?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures:t7:2
# text = What does real poetry also use?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	poetry	poetry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	also	also	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present · do-support | real poetry |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Imagery, rhythm and feeling, not only rhyme

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures:t7:o1:1
# text = Imagery, rhythm and feeling, not only rhyme
1	Imagery	imagery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	rhythm	rhythm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Long lists of numbers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures:t7:o2:1
# text = Long lists of numbers
1	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	lists	list	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **list** |  |  | numbers |  |  |  |  | nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Only rhymes that end in «oon»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures:t7:o3:1
# text = Only rhymes that end in «oon»
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	rhymes	rhyme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	end	end	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	oon	oon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** | present | rhymes |  |  | oon |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing else at all, because rhyme is the whole of poetry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures:t7:o4:1
# text = Nothing else at all, because rhyme is the whole of poetry
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	10	nsubj	_	_
2	else	else	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	7	case	_	_
7	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	poetry	poetry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Nothing |  |  |  |  | of poetry; whole *property* | tree rules |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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