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A sentence of the lesson «Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration» of the english course of Mova's primary school with it --- [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/10/) [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/) / 10 # Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, sentence 10 Onomatopoeia is a word that sounds like its meaning, such as buzz, hiss, crash and pop; "buzz" on its own is not alliteration. **Who acts:** Onomatopoeia, word, buzz · **What happens:** be, sound, not be, mean · **To what, where:** word, alliteration 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 (Onomatopoeia, word, buzz), 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:10 # text = Onomatopoeia is a word that sounds like its meaning, such as buzz, hiss, crash and pop; "buzz" on its own is not 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Onomatopoeia onomatopoeia NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 like like ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 meaning meaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 13 case _ _ 12 as as ADP IN _ 11 fixed _ _ 13 buzz buzz NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 hiss hiss NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 crash crash NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 pop pop NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=17:conj 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 buzz buzz NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 nmod _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 alliteration alliteration NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Onomatopoeia | a word and buzz and hiss and crash and pop | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **sound** | present | a word and buzz and hiss and crash and pop | | | | | like onomatopoeia's meaning | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **not** **is a** | present | buzz on onomatopoeia's own | alliteration | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **mean** | | onomatopoeia | | | | | | nom meaning «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:10`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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. 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