Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing, sentence 9
A limerick is a funny five-line poem with the rhyme pattern AABBA and a bouncy rhythm.
Who acts: limerick · What happens: be · To what, where: funny line poem
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 (limerick), 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 | 2 limerick | det |
| 2 | limerick | limerick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 poem | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 poem | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 poem | det |
| 5 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 poem | amod |
| 6 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 line | nummod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 five | punct |
| 8 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 poem | compound |
| 9 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 pattern | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pattern | det |
| 12 | rhyme | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pattern | compound |
| 13 | pattern | pattern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 poem | nmod |
| 14 | AABBA | AABBA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 pattern | appos |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 rhythm | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 rhythm | det |
| 17 | bouncy | bouncy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 rhythm | amod |
| 18 | rhythm | rhythm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pattern | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 poem | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a limerick | a funny line poem | with the rhyme pattern and a bouncy rhythm | 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:9.
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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