--- title: A rhyme must still make sense: "The sea is blue, I like a shoe" rhym… — Poetry: rhyme and rhythm · tree and pragmatics description: A rhyme must still make sense: "The sea is blue, I like a shoe" rhymes, but the shoe wandered in only for the sound; good poets choose the meaning first and hunt for a rhyme that fits it. Who acts: rhyme, sea, I, shoe. 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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, sea, I, shoe), 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:3 # text = A rhyme must still make sense: "The sea is blue, I like a shoe" rhymes, but the shoe wandered in only for the sound; good poets choose the meaning first and hunt for a rhyme that fits it. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 rhyme rhyme NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 still still ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 sense sense NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 9 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 appos _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 like like VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 shoe shoe NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 19 rhymes rhyme NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 shoe shoe NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 wandered wander VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 25 in in ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 26 only only ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 31 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 poets poet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 choose choose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 meaning meaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 33 advmod _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 hunt hunt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 39 for for ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 rhyme rhyme NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 42 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 43 nsubj _ _ 43 fits fit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 acl:relcl _ _ 44 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ _ 45 . . 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 | **make** | must | a rhyme | sense | | | still | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sense=Product | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the sea | | | | | blue *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **like** *in a quote* | present | I | shoe rhymes | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rhyme=Theme | | 4 | **wander** | past | the shoe | | | | | for the sound | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **choose** | present | good poets | the meaning | | | | first *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Theme | | 6 | **hunt** | present | good poets *not said here* | | | | | for a rhyme | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for rhyme=Theme | | 7 | **fit** | present | a rhyme | meaning | | | | | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | 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:3`. **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 ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Poetry: rhyme and rhythm, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm/2/) - next →: [Poetry: rhyme and rhythm, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm/)