Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing, sentence 13

A shape poem (also called a calligram) is laid out in the shape of its subject, but its words must still be strong.

Who acts: shape poem, words, subject · What happens: call, lay out, be, word · To what, where: calligram, shape poem, shape · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (shape poem, words, subject), 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	3 poem	det
2	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poem	compound
3	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 laid	nsubj:pass
4	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 called	punct
5	also	also	ADV	_	6 called	advmod
6	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 poem	acl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 calligram	det
8	calligram	calligram	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 called	xcomp
9	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 called	punct
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 laid	aux:pass
11	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 laid	compound:prt
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 shape	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 shape	det
15	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 laid	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 subject	case
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 subject	nmod:poss
18	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shape	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 strong	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 strong	cc
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 words	nmod:poss
22	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 strong	nsubj
23	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 strong	aux
24	still	still	ADV	_	26 strong	advmod
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 strong	cop
26	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 laid	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 laid	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	participle	a shape poem not said here	a calligram				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lay out	present · passive		a shape poem	the shape of shape's subject			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in shape=Destination
3	is	must	subject's words			still	strong property	tree rules
4	word		subject					nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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:13.

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): R8-pos-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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