--- title: "As cold as ice" is a cliché, a comparison used so often it has gone… — Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, allit… · tree and pragmatics description: "As cold as ice" is a cliché, a comparison used so often it has gone stale; a fresh one, like "as cold as a metal slide in January", makes a clearer picture. Who acts: cold ice, ice. 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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 (cold ice, ice), 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:13 # text = "As cold as ice" is a cliché, a comparison used so often it has gone stale; a fresh one, like "as cold as a metal slide in January", makes a clearer picture. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ _ 2 As as ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 as as ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 cliché cliché NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 parataxis _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 comparison comparison NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 13 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 acl _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advmod 15 often often ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advmod 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 parataxis _ _ 19 stale stale ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 like like ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 27 as as ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 29 as as ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 slide slide NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 January January PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 35 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct 36 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 37 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 clearer clear ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 40 amod _ _ 40 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 37 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 | cold ice | a cliché | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **use** | participle | | a comparison and a fresh one *not said here* | | | | often *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **go** | present · perfect | ice | | | | | stale *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **make** | present | | a clearer picture | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset picture=Product | 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:13`. **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, R6-punct-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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