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title: Some words have few or no perfect rhymes, such as orange, month and… — Poetry: rhyme and rhythm · tree and pragmatics
description: Some words have few or no perfect rhymes, such as orange, month and the Australian word arvo (afternoon); poets can use a near rhyme or put the word in the middle of a line. Who acts: words, poets. A sentence of the lesson «Poetry: rhyme and rhythm» of the english course of Mova's primary school wit
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# Poetry: rhyme and rhythm, sentence 12

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Some words have few or no perfect rhymes, such as orange, month and the Australian word arvo (afternoon); poets can use a near rhyme or put the word in the middle of a line.

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**Who acts:** words, poets · **What happens:** have, use, put · **To what, where:** few perfect rhymes, near rhyme, word, middle

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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 (words, poets), 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:12
# text = Some words have few or no perfect rhymes, such as orange, month and the Australian word arvo (afternoon); poets can use a near rhyme or put the word in the middle of a line.
# 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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det
7	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	rhymes	rhyme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	14	case	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
14	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:det
17	Australian	Australian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:amod
18	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	arvo	arvo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
21	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	parataxis	_	_
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	poets	poet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	near	near	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **have** | present | some words | few perfect rhymes |  |  | such orange month and word arvo |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rhyme=Patient |
| 2 | **use** | can | poets | a near rhyme |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rhyme=Patient |
| 3 | **put** | infinitive | poets *not said here* | the word |  | the middle of a line |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme in middle=Destination |

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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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×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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