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description: 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? Test 3 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
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# Test 3 · Poetry: rhyme and rhythm

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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?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** line, lesson · **What happens:** rhyme, end up, sneeze, show · **To what, where:** cartoon, trees

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This is test 3 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a cartoon, a poet forces every line to rhyme with "cheese" and the poem ends up about sneezing trees.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm:t3:1
# text = In a cartoon, a poet forces every line to rhyme with "cheese" and the poem ends up about sneezing trees.
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	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	rhyme	rhyme	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	ends	end	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	sneezing	sneeze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
23	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rhyme** | to-infinitive | every line *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with cheese and the poem | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with cheese=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **end up** | present | every line |  |  |  |  | in a cartoon and a poet forces *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in cartoon=Result |
| 3 | **sneeze** | gerund | every line *not said here* | trees |  |  |  |  | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* What lesson does it show?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm:t3:2
# text = What lesson does it show?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present · do-support | what lesson |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Trees really can sneeze in poems

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm:t3:o1:1
# text = Trees really can sneeze in poems
1	Trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	really	really	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	sneeze	sneeze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	poems	poem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sneeze** | can | Trees |  |  | poems |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Rhyme should not push out the meaning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm:t3:o2:1
# text = Rhyme should not push out the meaning
1	Rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **push out** | should | Rhyme | the meaning |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Rhymes always improve any poem, whatever they say

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm:t3:o3:1
# text = Rhymes always improve any poem, whatever they say
1	Rhymes	rhyme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	improve	improve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	conj	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **improve** | present | Rhymes | any poem |  |  |  | always *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent poem=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Rhymes *= rhyme* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Every poem should be about cheese and trees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm:t3:o4:1
# text = Every poem should be about cheese and trees
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | should | every poem |  |  |  |  | about cheese and trees | 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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