--- title: Rhythm is the beat of a line, the pattern of strong and weak sounds… — Poetry: rhyme and rhythm · tree and pragmatics description: Rhythm is the beat of a line, the pattern of strong and weak sounds you can clap: "HICK-o-ry, DICK-o-ry, DOCK, the MOUSE ran UP the CLOCK" has a beat you can march to, just like a drum. Who acts: Rhythm, you, MOUSE, strong sounds. 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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 (Rhythm, you, MOUSE, strong sounds), 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:1 # text = Rhythm is the beat of a line, the pattern of strong and weak sounds you can clap: "HICK-o-ry, DICK-o-ry, DOCK, the MOUSE ran UP the CLOCK" has a beat you can march to, just like a drum. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Rhythm rhythm NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 beat beat NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 pattern pattern NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=12:cc 14 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 15 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 clap clap VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct 21 HICK hick NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ _ 23 o of ADP IN Abbr=Yes 25 case _ _ 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 25 ry ry NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 DICK DICK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 appos _ _ 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ _ 29 o of ADP IN Abbr=Yes 31 case _ _ 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct 31 ry ry NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 appos _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 DOCK dock NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 MOUSE mouse PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=37:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 37 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 38 UP up ADP RP _ 37 compound:prt _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 CLOCK clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 42 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 beat beat NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ _ 45 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 46 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 47 march march VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 acl:relcl _ _ 48 to to ADP IN _ 47 obl _ _ 49 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 50 just just ADV RB _ 53 advmod _ _ 51 like like ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 52 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 drum drum NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 54 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 a** | present | Rhythm | the beat and the pattern of strong sounds | | | | of a line | tree rules | | 2 | **clap** | can | you | strong sounds *not said here* | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sound=Theme | | 3 | **run up** *in a quote* | past | the MOUSE | the CLOCK | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme clock=Trajectory | | 4 | **have** | present | | a beat | | | | like a drum | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beat=Patient | | 5 | **march** | can | you | a beat *not said here* | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme beat=Trajectory | | 6 | **pattern** | | strong sounds | | | | | | nom pattern «cognition intransitive»: of=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:1`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Poetry: rhyme and rhythm, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm/0/) - next →: [Poetry: rhyme and rhythm, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm/)