--- title: Alliteration is the same first sound repeated in words close togethe… — Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, allit… · tree and pragmatics description: Alliteration is the same first sound repeated in words close together: "big brown bear", "slithering snakes slide silently". Who acts: Alliteration, same first sound, snakes. A sentence of the lesson «Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration» of the english course of Mova's primary sc --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, sentence 9 Alliteration is the same first sound repeated in words close together: "big brown bear", "slithering snakes slide silently". **Who acts:** Alliteration, same first sound, snakes · **What happens:** be, repeat, slither, slide · **To what, where:** same first sound, words 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 (Alliteration, same first sound, snakes), 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:9 # text = Alliteration is the same first sound repeated in words close together: "big brown bear", "slithering snakes slide silently". # 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): no change 1 Alliteration alliteration NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 6 amod _ _ 6 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 repeated repeat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 10 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 11 together together ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 14 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 20 slithering slither VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 acl _ _ 21 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 slide slide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 23 silently silently ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Alliteration | the same first sound | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **repeat** | participle | | the same first sound *not said here* | | words | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **slither** *in a quote* | gerund | the same first sound *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **slide** *in a quote* | present | snakes | | | | | silently *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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:9`. **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): no change. **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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