--- title: Good readers name the effect, not only the trick: the hard c sounds… — Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, allit… · tree and pragmatics description: Good readers name the effect, not only the trick: the hard c sounds make the eagle seem strong, and the "hands" make it seem almost human. Who acts: Good readers, hard c sounds, eagle, hands. 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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 (Good readers, hard c sounds, eagle, hands), 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:12 # text = Good readers name the effect, not only the trick: the hard c sounds make the eagle seem strong, and the "hands" make it seem almost human. # 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 ×2 1 Good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 readers reader NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 name name VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 effect effect NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 8 only only ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 c c NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 seem seem VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 25 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 seem seem VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 almost almost ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 xcomp _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **name** | present | Good readers | the effect the trick | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Theme | | 2 | **make** | present | the hard c sounds | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **seem** | infinitive | the eagle | | | | | strong *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **make** | present | the hands | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **seem** | infinitive | it | | | | | human *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | 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:12`. **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 ×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. 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