Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing, sentence 12
An acrostic poem spells a word with the first letter of each line, and each line should be a phrase, not just one word.
Who acts: acrostic poem, line · What happens: spell, be, letter · To what, where: word, phrase, line
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 (acrostic poem, line), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 poem | det |
| 2 | acrostic | acrostic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 poem | amod |
| 3 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spells | nsubj |
| 4 | spells | spell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 word | det |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spells | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 letter | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 letter | det |
| 9 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 letter | amod |
| 10 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 word | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 line | case |
| 12 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 line | det |
| 13 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 letter | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 spells | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 phrase | cc |
| 16 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 line | det |
| 17 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 phrase | nsubj |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 phrase | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 phrase | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 phrase | det |
| 21 | phrase | phrase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spells | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 word | punct |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 word | advmod |
| 24 | just | just | ADV | _ | 26 word | advmod |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 word | nummod |
| 26 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 phrase | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spells | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spell | present | a acrostic poem | a word | with the first letter of each line | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent word=Theme with letter=Manner | |||
| 2 | is a | should | each line | a phrase and one word | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | letter | each line | nom letter «communication transitive»: of=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:12.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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