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Test 1 · Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing

Your mate says, "Any short poem's a haiku, innit." Put him right.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, short poem, you · What happens: say, be, put · To what, where: haiku, mate · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 47 «Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing» of the English course of Mova's primary school. 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

Sentence 1: Your mate says, "Any short poem's a haiku, innit."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 haiku	punct
6	Any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 poem	det
7	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 poem	amod
8	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 haiku	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 haiku	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 haiku	det
11	haiku	haiku	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 innit	punct
13	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 haiku	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 haiku	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 haiku	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	any short poem	a haiku and innit					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.

Sentence 2: Put him right.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obj
3	right	right	ADV	_	1 Put	advmod
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here		mate			right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal

The options

Option 1

A haiku must be about the sea, only that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 haiku	det
2	haiku	haiku	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sea	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 sea	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 sea	cop
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 sea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sea	punct
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 that	advmod
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 sea	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must	a haiku					about the sea; that nmod	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A haiku is any poem that rhymes twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 haiku	det
2	haiku	haiku	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 poem	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 poem	cop
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 poem	det
5	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 rhymes	nsubj
7	rhymes	rhyme	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 poem	acl:relcl
8	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 rhymes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a haiku	any poem					tree rules
2	rhyme	present	any poem					twice property	vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Any poem under ten words is a haiku

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	2 poem	det
2	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 haiku	nsubj
3	under	under	ADP	_	5 words	case
4	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 words	nummod
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 poem	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 haiku	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 haiku	det
8	haiku	haiku	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	any poem under ten words	a haiku					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A haiku keeps a 5-7-5 syllable pattern

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 haiku	det
2	haiku	haiku	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pattern	det
5	5-7-5	5-7-5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 syllable	nummod
6	syllable	syllable	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pattern	compound
7	pattern	pattern	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	a haiku	a syllable pattern					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pattern=Theme

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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