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title: Whether two words rhyme can depend on accent: bath and laugh rhyme i… — Poetry: rhyme and rhythm · tree and pragmatics
description: Whether two words rhyme can depend on accent: bath and laugh rhyme in much of southern England but not in the North or in Scotland. Who acts: two words. A sentence of the lesson «Poetry: rhyme and rhythm» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Poetry: rhyme and rhythm, sentence 11

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Whether two words rhyme can depend on accent: bath and laugh rhyme in much of southern England but not in the North or in Scotland.

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**Who acts:** two words · **What happens:** rhyme, depend · **To what, where:** much southern England

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Poetry: rhyme and rhythm» 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 (two words), 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:11
# text = Whether two words rhyme can depend on accent: bath and laugh rhyme in much of southern England but not in the North or in Scotland.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rhyme	rhyme	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	csubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	depend	depend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	accent	accent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
10	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc
12	laugh	laugh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	rhyme	rhyme	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **rhyme** | present | two words |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **depend** | can |  |  |  |  |  | on accent | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on accent=Theme |
| 3 | **rhyme** | present |  |  |  | much southern England but the North or Scotland |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:045-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm.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, R7-rel-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/).

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