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title: Poems paint pictures with words, called imagery. — Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures · tree and pragmatics
description: Poems paint pictures with words, called imagery. Who acts: Poems, pictures. 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 3

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Poems paint pictures with words, called imagery.

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**Who acts:** Poems, pictures · **What happens:** paint, call · **To what, where:** pictures, imagery · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Poems, pictures), 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:3
# text = Poems paint pictures with words, called imagery.
# 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): no change
1	Poems	poem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	paint	paint	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
8	imagery	imagery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	_
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **paint** | present | Poems | pictures |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent picture=Destination |
| 2 | **call** | participle | pictures *not said here* | imagery |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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): no change. **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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