--- title: A simile compares two things using "like" or "as": "The lake was as… — Describing: senses, showing and precise words · tree and pragmatics description: A simile compares two things using "like" or "as": "The lake was as flat as a plate." Who acts: simile, lake. A sentence of the lesson «Describing: senses, showing and precise words» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/41-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Describing: senses, showing and precis…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/41-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words/) / 11 # Describing: senses, showing and precise words, sentence 11 A simile compares two things using "like" or "as": "The lake was as flat as a plate." **Who acts:** simile, lake · **What happens:** compare, use, be · **To what, where:** two things · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Describing: senses, showing and precise words» 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, lake), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:041-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words.lesson:11 # text = A simile compares two things using "like" or "as": "The lake was as flat as a plate." # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 041-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words.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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 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=20:punct 8 like like INTJ UH _ 20 obj _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 12 as as ADP IN _ 8 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 16 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 lake lake NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 as as ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 21 as as ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 plate plate NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **compare** | present | a simile | two things | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **use** | gerund | a simile *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the lake | | | | | as a plate; flat *property* | tree rules | 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. **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:041-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words.lesson:11`. **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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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. 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