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title: A simile compares two things using «like» or «as»: lonely as a cloud. — Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures · tree and pragmatics
description: A simile compares two things using «like» or «as»: lonely as a cloud. Who acts: simile. A sentence of the lesson «Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures, sentence 20

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A simile compares two things using «like» or «as»: lonely as a cloud.

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**Who acts:** simile · **What happens:** compare, use · **To what, where:** two things

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures» of the english course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (simile), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:025-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures.lesson:20
# text = A simile compares two things using «like» or «as»: lonely as a cloud.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 025-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	simile	simile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	compares	compare	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	obj	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	conj	_	_
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
15	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compare** | present | a simile | two things |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
| 2 | **use** | gerund | a simile *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent like=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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:english:025-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures.lesson:20`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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