--- title: A rhyming dictionary lists words by their sounds; poets have used th… — Poetry: rhyme and rhythm · tree and pragmatics description: A rhyming dictionary lists words by their sounds; poets have used them for centuries, and choosing the right rhyme is still the poet's job. Who acts: rhyming dictionary, poets. 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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 (rhyming dictionary, 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:15 # text = A rhyming dictionary lists words by their sounds; poets have used them for centuries, and choosing the right rhyme is still the poet's job. # 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, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 rhyming rhyme NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 3 dictionary dictionary NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 lists list VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 10 poets poet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 11 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 centuries century NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 choosing choose VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 conj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 rhyme rhyme NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:nsubj 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 23 still still ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 poet poet NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 's 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 ccomp _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **list** | present | a rhyming dictionary | words | | | | by words's sounds | tree rules | | 2 | **use** | present · perfect | poets | words *= word* | | | century | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 3 | **choose** | gerund | poets *not said here* | the right rhyme | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rhyme=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | poets *not said here* | the poet's job | | | still | | 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:045-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm.lesson:15`. **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, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm/14/) - next →: [Poetry: rhyme and rhythm, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm/)