--- title: When you personify the moon, one or two human actions (it watches, i… — Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, allit… · tree and pragmatics description: When you personify the moon, one or two human actions (it watches, it whispers) work better than giving it a job and a car. Who acts: you, moon, one. A sentence of the lesson «Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency --- [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/16/) [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/) / 16 # Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, sentence 16 When you personify the moon, one or two human actions (it watches, it whispers) work better than giving it a job and a car. **Who acts:** you, moon, one · **What happens:** personify, watch, whisper, work, give · **To what, where:** moon, job 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 (you, moon, one), 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:16 # text = When you personify the moon, one or two human actions (it watches, it whispers) work better than giving it a job and a car. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 personify personify VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 7 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nsubj _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nummod 10 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 actions action NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 watches watch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:acl 15 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obj 17 whispers whisper VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 18 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 19 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 20 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 19 advmod _ _ 21 than than SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 22 giving give VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 advcl _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 iobj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **personify** | present | you | the moon | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **watch** | present | moon | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | present | moon | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **work** | infinitive | one or human actions | | | | | well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **give** | gerund | one or human actions *not said here* | a job and a car | moon | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient job=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:16`. **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, 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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