Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing, sentence 7
Haiku are often about nature, but they can catch any small everyday moment, even at a petrol station.
Who acts: Haiku, syllables · What happens: be, catch · To what, where: petrol station
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 (Haiku, syllables), 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 | Haiku | Haiku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 nature | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 nature | cop |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 nature | advmod |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 nature | case |
| 5 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 catch | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 catch | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 catch | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 catch | aux |
| 10 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 nature | conj |
| 11 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 moment | det |
| 12 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 moment | amod |
| 13 | everyday | everyday | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 moment | amod |
| 14 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 catch | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 station | punct |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 20 station | advmod |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 station | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 station | det |
| 19 | petrol | petrol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 station | compound |
| 20 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 catch | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 nature | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Haiku | about nature; often property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | catch | can | syllables = syllable | a petrol station | moment | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent at station=Asset |
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:7.
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): no change. 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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