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Test 2 · Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing

Ella writes the line "Petrol smell, cars hum". Can it open a haiku?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ella, cars, line · What happens: write, hum, open · To what, where: line, haiku · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 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: Ella writes the line "Petrol smell, cars hum".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ella	Ella	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 writes	nsubj
2	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 line	det
4	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 writes	obj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 smell	punct
6	Petrol	petrol	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smell	compound
7	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 line	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hum	punct
9	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hum	nsubj
10	hum	hum	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 writes	parataxis
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 hum	punct
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 writes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	present	Ella	the line					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent line=Recipient clause=Topic
2	hum in a quote	present	cars						vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location

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: Can it open a haiku?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 open	aux
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 open	nsubj
3	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 haiku	det
5	haiku	haiku	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 open	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 open	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	can	line	a haiku					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location haiku=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

No, haiku can't be about cars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 cars	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	haiku	haiku	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cars	nsubj
4	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 cars	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 cars	advmod
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 cars	cop
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 cars	case
8	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	can	haiku					about cars	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, it has five 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	_	1 Yes	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	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 syllables	nummod
6	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	five syllables					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent syllable=Patient

Option 3

No, it has seven syllables

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	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	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 syllables	nummod
6	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	seven syllables					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent syllable=Patient

Option 4

No, it has four syllables

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	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	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 syllables	nummod
6	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	four 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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