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title: Rhyme makes poems easier to remember and fun to say, which is one re… — Poetry: rhyme and rhythm · tree and pragmatics
description: Rhyme makes poems easier to remember and fun to say, which is one reason nursery rhymes have lasted hundreds of years. Who acts: Rhyme, poems, nursery rhymes. A sentence of the lesson «Poetry: rhyme and rhythm» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Poetry: rhyme and rhythm, sentence 6

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Rhyme makes poems easier to remember and fun to say, which is one reason nursery rhymes have lasted hundreds of years.

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**Who acts:** Rhyme, poems, nursery rhymes · **What happens:** make, remember, say, be, last · **To what, where:** poems, one reason, hundreds · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Rhyme, poems, nursery rhymes), 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:6
# text = Rhyme makes poems easier to remember and fun to say, which is one reason nursery rhymes have lasted hundreds of years.
# 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 ×1
1	Rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	poems	poem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	fun	fun	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
16	nursery	nursery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	rhymes	rhyme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	lasted	last	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
20	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Rhyme | poems |  |  |  | easy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset poem=Product |
| 2 | **remember** | to-infinitive | poems *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | poems *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | one reason |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **last** | present · perfect | nursery rhymes | hundreds of years |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme hundred=Value |

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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:6`.

**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 ×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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