Exam question 2 · Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing
State the rhyme scheme conventionally observed in the limerick.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: state, observe · To what, where: rhyme scheme, limerick
This is exam question 2 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 | State | state | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 scheme | det |
| 3 | rhyme | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scheme | compound |
| 4 | scheme | scheme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 State | obj |
| 5 | conventionally | conventionally | ADV | _ | 6 observed | advmod |
| 6 | observed | observe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 scheme | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 limerick | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 limerick | det |
| 9 | limerick | limerick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 observed | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 State | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | state speech: other | imperative | you not said here | the rhyme scheme | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent scheme=Topic | ||||
| 2 | observe | participle | the rhyme scheme not said here | the limerick | conventionally property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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
AABB
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AABB | AABB | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
ABABA
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ABABA | ABABA | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
ABCB
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ABCB | ABCB | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
AABBA
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AABBA | AABBA | PROPN | 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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