--- title: Which pair is matched correctly? — Poetry: simile, metaphor, personificat… · tree and pragmatics description: Which pair is matched correctly? Test 9 · ★ 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 wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration/t9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/) / [Poetry: simile, metaphor, personificat…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration Which pair is matched correctly? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** match · **To what, where:** pair This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration:t9:1 # text = Which pair is matched correctly? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 pair pair NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 matched match VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 correctly correctly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **match** | present · passive | | which pair | | | | correctly *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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 {#o1} buzz: simile; "heart of gold": personification ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration:t9:o1:1 # text = buzz: simile; "heart of gold": personification 1 buzz buzz NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 3 simile simile NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ; ; PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 11 personification personification NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} buzz: metaphor; "heart of gold": onomatopoeia ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration:t9:o2:1 # text = buzz: metaphor; "heart of gold": onomatopoeia 1 buzz buzz NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 3 metaphor metaphor NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ; ; PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 11 onomatopoeia onomatopoeia NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} buzz: alliteration; "heart of gold": simile ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration:t9:o3:1 # text = buzz: alliteration; "heart of gold": simile 1 buzz buzz NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 3 alliteration alliteration NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ; ; PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 11 simile simile NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} buzz: onomatopoeia; "heart of gold": metaphor ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration:t9:o4:1 # text = buzz: onomatopoeia; "heart of gold": metaphor 1 buzz buzz NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 3 onomatopoeia onomatopoeia NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ; ; PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 11 metaphor metaphor NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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