Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing, sentence 15

Performing a poem with clear speech, pauses at line ends and actions helps listeners feel it and helps you remember it; you do not need to be an actor.

Who acts: Performing, listeners, you · What happens: perform, help, feel, remember, not need, be · To what, where: poem, listeners, rhyme, you, actor

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 (Performing, listeners, you), 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	Performing	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 helps	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 poem	det
3	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Performing	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 speech	case
5	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 speech	amod
6	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Performing	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pauses	punct
8	pauses	pause	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 speech	conj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 ends	case
10	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ends	compound
11	ends	end	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pauses	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 actions	cc
13	actions	action	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ends	conj
14	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	listeners	listener	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 helps	obj
16	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 helps	xcomp
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 feel	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 helps	cc
19	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 helps	conj
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 helps	obj
21	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 helps	xcomp
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 remember	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 need	punct
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 need	nsubj
25	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 need	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 need	advmod
27	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 helps	parataxis
28	to	to	PART	_	31 actor	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 actor	cop
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 actor	det
31	actor	actor	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 need	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 helps	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	perform	gerund		a poem	with clear speech and pauses at line ends and actions	vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=Theme
2	help	present	Performing	listeners		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent listener=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	feel	infinitive	listeners not said here	rhyme		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	help	present	Performing not said here	you		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme
5	remember	infinitive	you not said here	rhyme		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	not need	present · do-support	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
7	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	a actor		tree rules

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:15.

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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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