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title: Everyday talk is full of metaphors: "a heart of gold", "a night owl"… — Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, allit… · tree and pragmatics
description: Everyday talk is full of metaphors: "a heart of gold", "a night owl", "my room is a pigsty". Who acts: Everyday talk, room. 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
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# Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, sentence 7

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Everyday talk is full of metaphors: "a heart of gold", "a night owl", "my room is a pigsty".

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**Who acts:** Everyday talk, room · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** pigsty

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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 (Everyday talk, room), 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:7
# text = Everyday talk is full of metaphors: "a heart of gold", "a night owl", "my room is a pigsty".
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Everyday	everyday	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	metaphors	metaphor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	pigsty	pigsty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Everyday talk |  |  |  |  | of metaphors; full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | my room | a pigsty |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:7`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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