Test 11 · Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing

Can "The old dog sleeps by the door" be the first line of a haiku?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old dog · What happens: sleep, be · To what, where: first line

This is test 11 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 sleeps	aux
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 sleeps	punct
3	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dog	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dog	amod
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sleeps	nsubj
6	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 door	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 door	det
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sleeps	obl
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 line	punct
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 line	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 line	det
13	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 line	amod
14	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sleeps	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 haiku	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 haiku	det
17	haiku	haiku	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 line	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 sleeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep in a quote	can	the old dog					by the door	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	infinitive		the first line				of a haiku	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

Yes: line one can be any length

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 line	discourse
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 line	punct
3	line	line	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 length	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 length	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 length	cop
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 length	det
8	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 line	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	line	imperative	you not said here						vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	is a	can	one	any length					tree rules

Option 2

Yes: it has exactly 5 syllables

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 has	discourse
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	6 5	advmod
6	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 syllables	nummod
7	syllables	syllable	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	it	5 syllables					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent syllable=Patient

Option 3

No: it has 9, far too many

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 has	det
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 has	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 many	advmod
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 many	advmod
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	it	9					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No: it has 7 syllables, not 5

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 has	det
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 syllables	nummod
6	syllables	syllable	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 5	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 5	advmod
9	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 syllables	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	it	7 syllables					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent syllable=Patient

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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