Test 4 · Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing

What would happen to a limerick if line 5 did not rhyme with line 1?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: line · What happens: happen, not rhyme

This is test 4 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 limerick	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 limerick	det
6	limerick	limerick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 rhyme	mark
8	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rhyme	nsubj:outer
9	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 line	flat
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 rhyme	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 rhyme	advmod
12	rhyme	rhyme	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 happen	advcl
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 line	case
14	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rhyme	obl
15	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 line	flat
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a limerick	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not rhyme a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	line					with line	vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with line=Co-Patient

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

It would turn into a kenning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 kenning	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kenning	det
6	kenning	kenning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	It			a kenning			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into kenning=Trajectory

Option 2

Nothing; line 5 is free

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 free	nsubj
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 line	punct
3	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	conj
4	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 line	flat
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 free	cop
6	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing					free property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It would break the AABBA pattern

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 break	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 break	aux
3	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pattern	det
5	AABBA	AABBA	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 pattern	compound
6	pattern	pattern	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 break	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	would	It	the AABBA pattern					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pattern=Patient

Option 4

It would turn into a haiku

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 haiku	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 haiku	det
6	haiku	haiku	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	It			a haiku			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into haiku=Trajectory

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