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title: ★★★ Which simile is a cliché? — Describing: senses, showing and precis… · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ Which simile is a cliché? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 41 «Describing: senses, showing and precise words» of the English course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 9 · ★ · Describing: senses, showing and precise words

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★★★ Which simile is a cliché?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ★ ★ ★ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** cliché

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 41 «Describing: senses, showing and precise words» 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/41-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:41-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words:t9:1
# text = ★★★ Which simile is a cliché?
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	5	det	_	_
5	simile	simile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cliché	cliché	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | ★ ★ ★  which simile | a cliché |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

## The options {#options}

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

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as cold as ice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:41-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words:t9:o1:1
# text = as cold as ice
1	as	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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as cold as a spoon left in the freezer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:41-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words:t9:o2:1
# text = as cold as a spoon left in the freezer
1	as	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	freezer	freezer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | participle |  | a spoon *not said here* |  |  |  | in the freezer *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in freezer=Result |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
as cold as Monday-morning pavement

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:41-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words:t9:o3:1
# text = as cold as Monday-morning pavement
1	as	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	Monday	Monday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	pavement	pavement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
as cold as the back of a fridge door

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:41-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words:t9:o4:1
# text = as cold as the back of a fridge door
1	as	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	fridge	fridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

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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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