--- title: Rhyme is when words end with the same sound, like wall and fall in t… — Poetry: rhyme and rhythm · tree and pragmatics description: Rhyme is when words end with the same sound, like wall and fall in the old nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall"; rhymes click together like puzzle pieces and make lines easy to remember. Who acts: Rhyme, rhymes, lines. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rhyme, rhymes, lines), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:045-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm.lesson:0 # text = Rhyme is when words end with the same sound, like wall and fall in the old nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall"; rhymes click together like puzzle pieces and make lines easy to remember. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 045-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Rhyme rhyme NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 4 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 end end VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 like like ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 fall fall NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 17 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 nursery nursery NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 rhyme rhyme NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 21 Humpty Humpty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 22 Dumpty Dumpty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 flat _ _ 23 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 Humpty Humpty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 29 Dumpty Dumpty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 flat _ _ 30 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 fall fall NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 35 ; ; PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 36 rhymes rhyme NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 37 click click VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 38 together together ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 like like ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 puzzle puzzle NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=37:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 44 lines line NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obj _ _ 45 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 xcomp _ _ 46 to to PART TO _ 47 mark _ _ 47 remember remember VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 xcomp _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Rhyme | | | the old nursery rhyme | | with the same sound; like wall and fall; end *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **sit** *in a quote* | past | | | | a wall | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wall=Location | | 3 | **have** *in a quote* | past | | a great fall | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fall=Patient | | 4 | **click** | infinitive | rhymes | | | | | like puzzle pieces; together *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **make** | present | rhymes *not said here* | lines | | | | easy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset line=Product | | 6 | **remember** | to-infinitive | lines *not said here* | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | 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:045-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm.lesson:0`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Writing to inform, instruct and persuade, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/44-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade/17/) - next →: [Poetry: rhyme and rhythm, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm/)