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title: In "The moon smiled down on the silver sea", which devices are used? — Poetry: simile, metaphor, personificat… · tree and pragmatics
description: In "The moon smiled down on the silver sea", which devices are used? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 46 «Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration» 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 10 · ★ · Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration

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In "The moon smiled down on the silver sea", which devices are used?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** moon · **What happens:** smile down, use · **To what, where:** silver sea, devices

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 46 «Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration» 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/46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration:t10:1
# text = In "The moon smiled down on the silver sea", which devices are used?
1	In	in	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	smiled	smile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
6	down	down	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	14	det	_	_
14	devices	device	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smile down** *in a quote* | past | the moon |  |  | the silver sea |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **use** | present · passive |  | which devices |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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Personification and alliteration

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration:t10:o1:1
# text = Personification and alliteration
1	Personification	personification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	alliteration	alliteration	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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A simile, and no other device at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration:t10:o2:1
# text = A simile, and no other device at all
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	simile	simile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	device	device	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A simile and onomatopoeia

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration:t10:o3:1
# text = A simile and onomatopoeia
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	simile	simile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	onomatopoeia	onomatopoeia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Onomatopoeia and nothing else

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration:t10:o4:1
# text = Onomatopoeia and nothing else
1	Onomatopoeia	onomatopoeia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	1	conj	_	_
4	else	else	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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

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