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description: "The leaves danced like dizzy dancers." Which of simile, personification and alliteration does it use? Test 11 · ★ 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 eac
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# Test 11 · ★ · Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration

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"The leaves danced like dizzy dancers." Which of simile, personification and alliteration does it use?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** leaves, simile · **What happens:** dance, use

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This is test 11 · ★ 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* "The leaves danced like dizzy dancers."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration:t11:1
# text = "The leaves danced like dizzy dancers."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	dizzy	dizzy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	dancers	dancer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance** *in a quote* | past | the leaves |  |  |  |  | like dizzy dancers | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «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.

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*Sentence 2:* Which of simile, personification and alliteration does it use?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration:t11:2
# text = Which of simile, personification and alliteration does it use?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	simile	simile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	personification	personification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	alliteration	alliteration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present · do-support | simile and personification and alliteration |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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The simile and alliteration, not personification

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration:t11:o1:1
# text = The simile and alliteration, not personification
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	simile	simile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	alliteration	alliteration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	personification	personification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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All three of them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration:t11:o2:1
# text = All three of them
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Only the alliteration

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration:t11:o3:1
# text = Only the alliteration
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	alliteration	alliteration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Only the simile

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration:t11:o4:1
# text = Only the simile
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	simile	simile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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