--- title: Poets paint pictures with words, and they have a few favourite trick… — Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, allit… · tree and pragmatics description: Poets paint pictures with words, and they have a few favourite tricks: the simile, the metaphor, personification and alliteration. Who acts: Poets. A sentence of the lesson «Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Poetry: simile, metaphor, personificat…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration/) / 0 # Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, sentence 0 Poets paint pictures with words, and they have a few favourite tricks: the simile, the metaphor, personification and alliteration. **Who acts:** Poets · **What happens:** paint, have · **To what, where:** pictures, few favourite tricks This is a sentence of the lesson «Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration» 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 (Poets), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:046-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration.lesson:0 # text = Poets paint pictures with words, and they have a few favourite tricks: the simile, the metaphor, personification and alliteration. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 046-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Poets poet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 paint paint VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 favourite favourite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 simile simile NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 metaphor metaphor NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 personification personification NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:appos 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 alliteration alliteration NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **paint** | present | Poets | pictures | | | | with words | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent picture=Destination with word=Theme | | 2 | **have** | present | Poets *= poet* | a few favourite tricks | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=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:046-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration.lesson:0`. **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, 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, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/45-poetry-rhyme-and-rhythm/16/) - next →: [Poetry: simile, metaphor, personificat…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration/)