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title: More similes do not make a better poem: a few strong ones beat a cro… — Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, allit… · tree and pragmatics
description: More similes do not make a better poem: a few strong ones beat a crowd of weak ones. Who acts: More similes, few strong ones. A sentence of the lesson «Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, sentence 15

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More similes do not make a better poem: a few strong ones beat a crowd of weak ones.

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**Who acts:** More similes, few strong ones · **What happens:** not make, beat · **To what, where:** better poem, crowd

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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 (More similes, few strong ones), 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:15
# text = More similes do not make a better poem: a few strong ones beat a crowd of weak ones.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	similes	simile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	beat	beat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | More similes | a better poem |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset poem=Product |
| 2 | **beat** | present | a few strong ones | a crowd of weak ones |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location crowd=Theme |

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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:046-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration.lesson:15`.

**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): 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/).

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