--- title: A simile compares two things using "like" or "as": "as brave as a li… — Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, allit… · tree and pragmatics description: A simile compares two things using "like" or "as": "as brave as a lion", "like a golden coin". Who acts: simile. 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 of every clau --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, sentence 5 A simile compares two things using "like" or "as": "as brave as a lion", "like a golden coin". **Who acts:** simile · **What happens:** compare, use · **To what, where:** two things 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 (simile), 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:5 # text = A simile compares two things using "like" or "as": "as brave as a lion", "like a golden coin". # 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, R6-punct-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 simile simile NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 compares compare VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 using use VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 8 like like INTJ UH _ 17 discourse _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 12 as as ADP IN _ 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 16 as as ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 brave brave ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ _ 18 as as ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 22 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 24 like like ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 coin coin NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **compare** | present | a simile | two things | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | | 2 | **use** | gerund | a simile *not said here* | | | | | | 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:5`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×4, R8-pos-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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