Exam question 4 · Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing

Determine which of the following is a defining feature of free verse.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: determine, follow, be

This is exam question 4 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 feature	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	9 feature	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 feature	det
5	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 feature	case
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 feature	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 feature	det
8	defining	defining	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 feature	amod
9	feature	feature	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	ccomp
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 verse	case
11	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 verse	amod
12	verse	verse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 feature	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here		vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	follow	gerund			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present		of the defining feature; of free verse	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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The absence of regular rhyme or rhythm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 absence	det
2	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 rhyme	case
4	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rhyme	amod
5	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 absence	nmod
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 rhythm	cc
7	rhythm	rhythm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rhyme	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	absent			regular rhyme or rhythm					nom absence «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

An arrangement in the shape of its subject

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 arrangement	det
2	arrangement	arrangement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 shape	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shape	det
5	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 arrangement	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 subject	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 subject	nmod:poss
8	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shape	nmod

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

Option 3

A length of precisely fourteen lines

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 length	det
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 lines	case
4	precisely	precisely	ADV	_	5 fourteen	advmod
5	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 lines	nummod
6	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 length	nmod

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

Option 4

A rhyme at the end of every single line

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rhyme	det
2	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 end	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 end	det
5	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rhyme	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 line	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 line	det
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 line	amod
9	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 end	nmod

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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