Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing, sentence 2

A kenning names a thing with two-word phrases, often a noun and an "-er" word ("ball-kicker", "goal-scorer"), an old Viking and Anglo-Saxon trick; an acrostic spells a word down the first letters of its lines; a shape poem is laid out in the shape of its subject.

Who acts: kenning, acrostic · What happens: name, spell, lay out, letter · To what, where: thing, word, shape poem, shape, lines

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, acrostic), 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 names	det
2	kenning	ken	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 names	nsubj
3	names	name	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 thing	det
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 names	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	10 phrases	case
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 word	nummod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 two	punct
9	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 phrases	compound
10	phrases	phrase	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 thing	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 noun	punct
12	often	often	ADV	_	14 noun	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 noun	det
14	noun	noun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 names	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 word	cc
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 word	det
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 er	punct
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 er	punct
19	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 word	compound
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 er	punct
21	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 noun	conj
22	(	(	PUNCT	_	26 kicker	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 kicker	punct
24	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 kicker	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 ball	punct
26	kicker	kicker	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 word	appos
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 kicker	punct
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 scorer	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 scorer	punct
30	goal	goal	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 scorer	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 goal	punct
32	scorer	scorer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 names	parataxis
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 scorer	punct
34	)	)	PUNCT	_	32 scorer	punct
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 Viking	punct
36	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 Viking	det
37	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 Viking	amod
38	Viking	viking	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 names	nmod
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 trick	cc
40	Anglo	Anglo	X	_	42 Saxon	compound
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 Anglo	punct
42	Saxon	Saxon	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Viking	conj
43	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 Viking	conj
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 spells	punct
45	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 acrostic	det
46	acrostic	acrostic	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 spells	nsubj
47	spells	spell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 names	parataxis
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 word	det
49	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 spells	obj
50	down	down	ADP	_	53 letters	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 letters	det
52	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	53 letters	amod
53	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 spells	obl
54	of	of	ADP	_	56 lines	case
55	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 lines	nmod:poss
56	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 letters	nmod
57	;	;	PUNCT	_	62 laid	punct
58	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	60 poem	det
59	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 poem	compound
60	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 laid	nsubj:pass
61	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	62 laid	aux:pass
62	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 spells	conj
63	out	out	ADP	_	62 laid	compound:prt
64	in	in	ADP	_	66 shape	case
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 shape	det
66	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 laid	obl
67	of	of	ADP	_	69 subject	case
68	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	69 subject	nmod:poss
69	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 shape	nmod
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 names	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	name	present	kenning	a thing		with word phrases; a noun and a er word nmod; a old Viking and Anglo Saxon and trick nmod	tree rules
2	spell	present	a acrostic	a word		down the first letters of acrostic's lines	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
3	lay out	present · passive		a shape poem	the shape of acrostic's subject		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in shape=Destination
4	letter			acrostic's lines			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:2.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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