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description: ★★★ A verse ends with day, moon, play, soon. What is its rhyme pattern? Test 9 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 9 · Poetry: rhyme and rhythm

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★★★ A verse ends with day, moon, play, soon. What is its rhyme pattern?

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

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This is test 9 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ A verse ends with day, moon, play, soon.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm:t9:1
# text = ★★★ A verse ends with day, moon, play, soon.
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	verse	verse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	ends	end	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **★** | present | ★ |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **end** | present | a verse |  |  |  | day |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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 is its rhyme pattern?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm:t9:2
# text = What is its rhyme pattern?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	pattern	pattern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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 | **is a** | present |  | verse's rhyme pattern |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

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

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ABAB

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm:t9:o1:1
# text = ABAB
1	ABAB	ABAB	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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ABBA

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm:t9:o2:1
# text = ABBA
1	ABBA	ABBA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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ABCD

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm:t9:o3:1
# text = ABCD
1	ABCD	ABCD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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AABB

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm:t9:o4:1
# text = AABB
1	AABB	AABB	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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