--- title: Picture Kai in Liverpool writing "The wind's screamin' through the s… — Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, allit… · tree and pragmatics description: Picture Kai in Liverpool writing "The wind's screamin' through the streets, like": the "like" at the end is just Scouse filler (Scouse is the Liverpool way of talking), so the trick there is personification, not a simile. Who acts: you, Scouse filler, Liverpool way, trick. 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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 (you, Scouse filler, Liverpool way, trick), 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:4 # text = Picture Kai in Liverpool writing "The wind's screamin' through the streets, like": the "like" at the end is just Scouse filler (Scouse is the Liverpool way of talking), so the trick there is personification, not a simile. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 Kai Kai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 Liverpool Liverpool PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 writing writing NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 7 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 screamin screamin NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 11 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 through through ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 streets street NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 16 like like SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ _ 18 : : PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:det 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 21 like like INTJ UH _ 29 discourse _ _ 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:obl 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 27 just just ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 28 Scouse scouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 filler filler NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 30 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 31 Scouse scouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 Liverpool Liverpool PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ _ 36 of of SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 37 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 38 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 35 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37:punct 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 so so ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 43 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 45 expl _ _ 44 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 45 personification personification NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 acl:relcl _ _ 46 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 47 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 49 advmod _ _ 48 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 simile simile NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 appos _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | Kai | | Liverpool writing | | through the streets | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent kai=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | | Scouse filler and Scouse | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | Scouse filler and Scouse | the Liverpool way and the trick | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **talk** | gerund | the Liverpool way and the trick *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | present | the trick *not said here* | personification | | there | | | tree rules | 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:4`. **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, 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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