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title: Which line has the most obvious beat to march to? — Poetry: rhyme and rhythm · tree and pragmatics
description: Which line has the most obvious beat to march to? Test 11 of lesson 45 «Poetry: rhyme and rhythm» 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 11 · Poetry: rhyme and rhythm

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Which line has the most obvious beat to march to?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** line · **What happens:** have, march · **To what, where:** obvious beat

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This is test 11 of lesson 45 «Poetry: rhyme and rhythm» 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/45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm:t11:1
# text = Which line has the most obvious beat to march to?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	6	advmod	_	_
6	obvious	obvious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	beat	beat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	march	march	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | which line | the obvious beat |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beat=Patient |
| 2 | **march** | to-infinitive | which line *not said here* | the obvious beat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

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Sometimes, in the quiet, I think about things

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm:t11:o1:1
# text = Sometimes, in the quiet, I think about things
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	quiet	quiet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | I |  |  | the quiet |  | about things; sometimes *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about thing=Topic |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The kettle, which is old, gave up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm:t11:o2:1
# text = The kettle, which is old, gave up
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the kettle |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give up** | past | the kettle |  |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Perhaps I shall not go

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm:t11:o3:1
# text = Perhaps I shall not go
1	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **go** | shall | I |  |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Left, right, left, right, march along tonight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm:t11:o4:1
# text = Left, right, left, right, march along tonight
1	Left	left	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	march	march	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	along	along	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	tonight	tonight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | participle · passive |  | Left |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **march** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | tonight | along *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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