Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing, sentence 11

A kenning describes something with two-word phrases, such as "ball-kicker" for a footballer; kennings do not need to rhyme.

Who acts: kenning, kennings · What happens: describe, not need, rhyme · To what, where: something

This is a sentence of the lesson «Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing» of the english course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kenning, kennings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kenning	det
2	kenning	kenning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 describes	nsubj
3	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 describes	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	9 phrases	case
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 word	nummod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 two	punct
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 phrases	compound
9	phrases	phrase	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 something	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 kicker	punct
11	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ	16 kicker	case
12	as	as	ADP	_	11 such	fixed
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 kicker	punct
14	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 kicker	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 ball	punct
16	kicker	kicker	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 phrases	nmod
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 kicker	punct
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 footballer	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 footballer	det
20	footballer	footballer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 kicker	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 need	punct
22	kennings	kenning	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 need	nsubj
23	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 need	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 need	advmod
25	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 describes	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	27 rhyme	mark
27	rhyme	rhyme	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 need	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 describes	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	describe	present	a kenning	something	with word phrases such ball kicker for a footballer	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent something=Theme
2	not need	present · do-support	kennings			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	rhyme not said to happen	to-infinitive	kennings not said here			vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:english:047-poetry-forms-haiku-limerick-kenning-acrostic-performing.lesson:11.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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