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title: What would happen to a limerick if line 5 did not rhyme with line 1? — Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen to a limerick if line 5 did not rhyme with line 1? Test 4 of lesson 47 «Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing» of the English course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 4 · Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing

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What would happen to a limerick if line 5 did not rhyme with line 1?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** line · **What happens:** happen, not rhyme

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This is test 4 of lesson 47 «Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing» of the English course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/47-poetry-forms-haiku-limerick-kenning-acrostic-performing/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:47-poetry-forms-haiku-limerick-kenning-acrostic-performing:t4:1
# text = What would happen to a limerick if line 5 did not rhyme with line 1?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	limerick	limerick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:outer	_	_
9	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	flat	_	_
10	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	rhyme	rhyme	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  | to a limerick | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **rhyme** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · do-support | line |  |  |  |  | with line | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with line=Co-Patient |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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It would turn into a kenning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:47-poetry-forms-haiku-limerick-kenning-acrostic-performing:t4:o1:1
# text = It would turn into a kenning
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	kenning	kenning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | would | It |  |  | a kenning |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into kenning=Trajectory |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing; line 5 is free

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:47-poetry-forms-haiku-limerick-kenning-acrostic-performing:t4:o2:1
# text = Nothing; line 5 is free
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
3	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Nothing |  |  |  |  | free *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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It would break the AABBA pattern

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:47-poetry-forms-haiku-limerick-kenning-acrostic-performing:t4:o3:1
# text = It would break the AABBA pattern
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	AABBA	AABBA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	pattern	pattern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | would | It | the AABBA pattern |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pattern=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It would turn into a haiku

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:47-poetry-forms-haiku-limerick-kenning-acrostic-performing:t4:o4:1
# text = It would turn into a haiku
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	haiku	haiku	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | would | It |  |  | a haiku |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into haiku=Trajectory |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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