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title: Which poem is an acrostic for CAT? — Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which poem is an acrostic for CAT? Test 7 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 7 · Poetry forms: haiku, limerick, kenning, acrostic, performing

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Which poem is an acrostic for CAT?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** poem · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** acrostic

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This is test 7 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:47-poetry-forms-haiku-limerick-kenning-acrostic-performing:t7:1
# text = Which poem is an acrostic for CAT?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	acrostic	acrostic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	CAT	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | which poem | a acrostic |  |  |  | for CAT | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Cat, cat, cat / cat, cat, cat / cat, cat, cat

<!-- fold The tree, 9 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:47-poetry-forms-haiku-limerick-kenning-acrostic-performing:t7:o1:1
# text = Cat, cat, cat / cat, cat, cat / cat, cat, cat
1	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	/	/	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
7	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	/	/	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
13	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
My cat is cool / And very fun / She is grey

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:47-poetry-forms-haiku-limerick-kenning-acrostic-performing:t7:o2:1
# text = My cat is cool / And very fun / She is grey
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	/	/	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	fun	fun	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
9	/	/	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | My cat |  |  |  |  | cool *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | My cat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | cat |  |  |  |  | grey *property* | tree rules |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Curled up / Asleep in the sun / Tail twitching

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:47-poetry-forms-haiku-limerick-kenning-acrostic-performing:t7:o3:1
# text = Curled up / Asleep in the sun / Tail twitching
1	Curled	curl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	/	/	SYM	,	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Asleep	Asleep	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	/	/	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	Tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	twitching	twitching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **curl up** | participle |  |  |  | the sun and Tail twitching |  |  | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A cat sat / on a mat / and that is that

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:47-poetry-forms-haiku-limerick-kenning-acrostic-performing:t7:o4:1
# text = A cat sat / on a mat / and that is that
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	/	/	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mat	mat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	/	/	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | a cat |  |  | a mat |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on mat=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | present | that | that |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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