Exam question 1 · Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing

Identify the poetic form, of Japanese origin, customarily composed in English schools as three lines of five, seven and five syllables respectively.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, compose · To what, where: poetic form, Japanese origin, English schools

This is exam question 1 of lesson 47 «Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing» of the English course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 form	det
3	poetic	poetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 form	amod
4	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 origin	punct
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 origin	case
7	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 origin	amod
8	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 composed	punct
10	customarily	customarily	ADV	_	11 composed	advmod
11	composed	compose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 origin	acl:relcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 schools	case
13	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 schools	amod
14	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 composed	obl
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 lines	case
16	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 lines	nummod
17	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 composed	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 five	case
19	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 lines	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 seven	punct
21	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 five	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 syllables	cc
23	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 syllables	nummod
24	syllables	syllable	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 lines	conj
25	respectively	respectively	ADV	_	11 composed	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the poetic form				of Japanese origin	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent form=Theme
2	compose	participle		Japanese origin not said here		English schools		as three lines of five and five syllables; customarily, respectively property	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as line=Attribute

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The limerick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 limerick	det
2	limerick	limerick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

The kenning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 kenning	det
2	kenning	kenning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The haiku

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 haiku	det
2	haiku	haiku	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

The acrostic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 acrostic	det
2	acrostic	acrostic	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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